SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! DON’T READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW HOW JUPITER’S JOSH LYONS FARED ON THE PREMIERE OF “NEXT FOOD NETWORK STAR.”

OK. So our local boy survives to charm and cook another day. But it was close there for a while.

Lyons, an Asian chef/caterer/rock star, made such an initially strong impression with his goofy exhuberant “Rawk and Rolllllllll!” entrance in front of the judges that judge Susie Fogelson was like “Well, hello!” But that confidence went bye-bye over the course of his first challenge, which involved presenting his team’s pop-up restaurant and making a nori soup. He seemed awkward and tentative in his presentations, conflicting with his initial bravado, and nobody much liked his soup.

Is Josh Lyons the next ‘Food Network Star’?

I was getting worried there a little – I always like it when the local guys do well, and also, he’s cute. There is nothing wrong with cute, particularly when you’re expecting them to hand you a television show at some point. When I talked to him on the phone two weeks ago, Josh was incredibly funny and confident, and told me that he went out of his way to play up the Rawker thing, because he wanted to stand out. I was hoping he wasn’t standing out for the wrong reasons, ya know?

Fortunately, he triumphed with his final dish, a frittata so fresh and juicy-looking that I started to get up off the couch and try to make one myself, before I remembered that I don’t have any eggs, and that I was way out of Weight Watchers points. My hope is that the near-elimination was a wake-up call for Josh, and that it slapped his outward confidence into high gear, and that he doesn’t make any other soup that nobody likes. Obviously, he has some charms and skills, or he wouldn’t be there. And he told me that his performance chops were a plus. I’m hoping that pans out, because PBC could use a win. And there’s no one like him on that network right now.

Now, to buy some eggs.

MADISON, Wis. — A Wisconsin couple who appeared on the CBS reality-TV show The Amazing Race outlasted 10 other couples to claim top honors and a $1 million grand prize.

On their way to victory, Madison’s Dave and Rachel Brown raced across five continents, nine countries and 22 cities. They won in December, but their win was only revealed during Sunday’s season finale.

The show pits 11 two-person teams against each other in a trek around the world in which they must overcome a series of physical and mental obstacles.

Some of this season’s challenges required strategic thinking and the ability to read terrain, which proved to be an advantage to Army veteran Dave Brown. The former Blackhawk helicopter pilot has a background in military intelligence was also an officer in the Wisconsin Army National Guard.

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Hollywood ex-wives surely have stories to tell, and now five of them will have their own TV series.

VH1 said Wednesday that it is making “Hollywood Exes,” a one-hour series that will air this summer. Featured players are the ex-wives of Eddie Murphy, Prince, R. Kelly, Will Smith and Jose Canseco.

The network said that Nicole Murphy, Jessica Canseco, Andrea Kelly, Sheree Fletcher (Smith’s ex) and Mayte Garcia (Prince’s ex) “want to show the world that they are more than just a trophy wife with a pretty face.”

The 10-episode series will follow the women as they establish their own lives apart from their famous exes.

Australian-born Nikki Poulos of Delray Born is one of 14 designers competing on NBC's 'Fashion Star' for a chance at launching a collection at Macy's, H&M or Saks Fifth Avenue; at right is Poulos' Byron bikini design. (Poulos photo provided; bikini photo courtesy Nikki Poulos)

Nikki Poulos grew up in the Australian outback on a 54,000-acre cattle ranch. "We were incredibly isolated. No electricity. No television. Our parents flew us to school in a small plane," she says.

When she was 8 years old, Poulos started sewing and making clothes for herself. "I read a lot and fantasized about worlds outside my own, and imagining that one day I would be exploring them dressed in fabulous clothes."

Those daydreams have become reality for the 43-year-old Delray Beach designer, who spent several weeks last summer in Los Angeles, filming the reality TV series Fashion Star, which premieres at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday on NBC.

Poulos is one of 14 designers competing for the chance to launch a collection in Macy’s, H&M or Saks Fifth Avenue.

Model Elle MacPherson is the host and producer of the series.

"She’s really nice, down to earth," Poulos says. "She is an Australian icon, after all, so it was a bit of an honor to work with her."

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Brad Goreski has new clients who include Swedish actress Noomi Rapace, a new TV show and a new gig styling for Kate Spade New York.

What he doesn’t have is any interest in rehashing a feud with his former boss Rachel Zoe, who accused him of ditching her right before the Oscars and trying to steal her clients when he struck out on his own in 2010.

“How am I dealing with it? I have no comment about it. That’s how I’m putting it to rest. I wish her all the best,” Goreski said Friday at the Kate Spade presentation during New York Fashion Week.

He has denied both accusations in the past. Otherwise, life is really, really good for the Bravo star of “It’s a Brad, Brad World.”

The show premiered last month. It takes on Goreski’s life in Los Angeles with his partner of 10 years, TV writer Gary Janetti, as he moves from storing glamorous clothes for clients in his garage into a comfy work space of his own. And the tears. He cries a lot. Read the full story

The TV shows “Teen Mom” and “Teen Mom 2″ are getting a soundtrack — and no, it won’t consist of lullabies.

Instead, the soundtrack “Teen Mom” features the songs from emerging acts featured on the hit MTV shows. Proceeds from now until July 17 will benefit The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. It’s being released Tuesday on iTunes.

Joe Cuello, senior vice president of creative music integration at MTV, says this is the first time MTV has used a series soundtrack to “promote and support a cause.”

The hit shows document the plight of several young women as they deal with the hardships of young motherhood and more.

Guilty? The law says yes. But her hair looked fabulous.

I love “Snapped,” or as I sometimes called it, “Crazy Beyotches,” Oxygen’s pulpy documentary series about women who snap (get it?) and kill or attempt to kill somebody. It’s usually short, full of punchy interviews, great editing and twists and turns that make you go “What? Did that really happen?” I love it so much that in my occasional stand-up act I joke that it makes my husband a little nervous. (“He says ‘Gee, honey, I hope we never wind up on that show’ and I say ‘We would never be on that show….They would never trace it back to me…More peas? No?’”)

So I was extra-excited for Sunday night’s premiere of one of the most mind-blowing homegrown murder-for-hire plots I’ve heard of – the Dalia Dippolito case. You remember – the gym bunny convicted of hiring someone to kill her hapless husband, caught giving the performance of all performances on a police tape pretending to be distraught when notified of his “death.” Because he wasn’t dead. Whoops.

The episode is not only interesting because of the weird details, like the tape of her convincing her would-be accomplice to smile while she’s making “sure, sure” that he can get a gun, or because it’s local. It provides the inspired commentary of not one but two of my former Palm Beach Post colleagues, court reporter extraordinaire Susan Spencer-Wendel and police reporter turned Boynton Beach Police public information officer Stephanie Slater. Susan, you might know, has resigned to deal with the effects of Lou Gehrig’s Disease, while Stephanie’s been working with the police for a while.

Fun fact: “Working with the police” is my family’s metaphor for being detained by the authorities for an extended period on an involuntary basis…as in the hoosgow. Which is where Dalia, she of the pouty lips and awesome “I’m a widdle lamb” innocent eyes, will be headed if her appeal of her conviction doesn’t pan out (she’s currently on house arrest).  I had followed the case, perhaps like all of you, but there were some tidbits that were delicious:

- The tape of Dalia’s reaction to her husband’s “death,” where she quite clearly asks several times to see the body. Police take this as evidence that she wants confirmation that her deal, and subsequent inheritance from her hubby, has come through. Of course, she could have just been in shock but…the tape of her setting things up with an undercover cop posing as a hitman says “Liar, liar, surgically enhanced boobs on fire.”

- The unexpectedly hilarious tape of post-arrest Dalia, who, as Susan says, is completely delusional in her denial of the plot, even as police explain she’s been recorded planning it. In a shocking twist that tells me that someone at Boynton Beach Police has watched a lot of “Perry Mason,” we see her lay eyes on Michael, who she’s been told was dead. She keeps saying “Come here! Come here!,” to which he responds something like “Sister, please.” It reminded me of those Scooby Doo cartoons when Scoobs and the gang are fleeing from the villain of the week, who holds out a spindly evil arm and says “Come back here!” Yeah Evil Guy, and wife who’ve I just seen on tape plotting to kill me. That’s gonna happen.

- The fact that Mike Dippiito agreed to be on the show, despite his admittedly shady past and apparently poor character judgement. He’s kinda funny. I feel bad for him that his wife tried to kill him. But weirdly he seems to be taking it in stride.

Did you see it? What did you think? And if your spouse was caught on tape planning your death, would you be in a documentary about it?