AfterElton Briefs: Ryan Reynolds spins-off, Elisabeth Hasselbeck blows a gasket, and more!

Out writer Chuck Palahniuk during a reading at the Strand Bookstore last night in NYC (Pic: Getty)

Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.

• Well, blow it out your tubenburbles! If Neil Patrick Harris has his way, the next conquest for his Barney character on How I Met Your Mother will be ... Betty White.

• Kiefer Sutherland is set to surrender to police over that bizarre head-butting incident involving fashion designer Jack McCollough, allegedly over Brooke Shields.

• Apology time!: Virgina Foxx, um "apologizes" to Judy Shepard, and actor Mike Epps, um "apologizes" for his outburst last year when he told a photographer "you're a fag, a homosexual".

Ryan Reynolds in Two Swords, A Gun, and a Sequel

• Apropos of nothing, fans of gay-fave Ryan Reynolds (who just may find a place on the AfterElton Hot 100) can look forward to a spin-off of his Wolverine character Deadpool. I'm thinking three butt shots, minimum.

• The ladies of The View took on the subject of Sam "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher's idiocy today, and who would have thought that the blonde one would be the most fired-up!

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