BBC staffers are hard at work fitting Simon Doonan's memoir, Nasty: My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints, for the small screen. Absolutely Fabulous producer Jon Plowman hopes to make the show, Beautiful People, the hit of the season. We would tune in, but we're washing our hair that night. [NY Post]

Sweetie, darling! Fabulous news! Jennifer Saunders took a break from tickling funny bones to receive an honorary degree from Britain's Exeter University.

Saunders also got a chance to chat it up with actor (and hubby) Adrian Edmondson, with whom she used to perform stand-up.

In fact, Edmondson's college nick name, "Eddie Monsoon", inspired Saunders' Absolutely Fabulous character, "Edina Monsoon".

Just a little trivia for ya….

Considering Keira Knightley's dubious claim that she wants to look like Beth Ditto, we can't resist posting this Absolutely Fabulous-inspired Junior Vasquez track. We're not the biggest fans of JV, but you know we love us some Ab Fab.

It's also worth noting that we listen to this song when we're feeling fat and ungorgeous. It cheers us up for 3 minutes and 35 seconds. Then we go back to sobbing like a baby. Unless it's on repeat, in which case we're deliriously self-confident until the music stops. The moral of the story: don't stop the music.

• American Idol pressuring contestants to stay in the closet. America really needs to get a collective dose of gaydar, so people can just figure these things out on their own and get over it. How did people not know about The Gayken? [Temenos]

• Massachusetts prison officer is in trouble after showing Brokeback Mountain to inmates. Apparently the sex scenes gave the prisoners too many ideas. [BBC]

• Once Marc Jacobs starts a trend, everyone starts to play along: New York superstar weatherman Sam Champion is in love with a rent boy. Known far and wide beyond just the New York metro area, Champion made hearts flutter not only for his nightly weather forecasts, but also his fabled cameo appearances at Fire Island summer parties. We are all devastated Champion is off the market. [Jossip]

• Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders–a.k.a. Patsy and Edina from Absolutely Fabulous–are coming back to TV. All hail the queens! [Zap2It]

• Speaking of our favorite women on TV: Rue McClanahan fights age with sex. Blanche Deveraux lives! [AP]