… I have my answer now.

I’d forgotten a news item I’d seen over the weekend, which explains the WHOLE thing.

It turns out that the producers of the “hit” (and I use that term lightly because, really, is anyone still watching?) show The Bachelor had to axe a bunch of potential hotties for the next season because they tested positive for herpes and other STDs.

Apparently all the hot people are now having the herpes, forcing them to have sex only with other, similarly infected hotties or, possibly, utter skeevos like Pete Doherty.

I’m also going to apply this theory to Paris Hilton banging the Fat Jack Osbourne.

Frankie Abernathy, who appeared on MTV’s Real World: San Diego, has died at the age of 25.

While Abernathy left the show early because of problems with her housemates, she was known for raising awareness of both her disease (Cystic Fibrosis) as well as cutting (she cut herself with a kitchen knife).