AfterElton Briefs: Kristin Stewart Explains Christmas, Tragedy For Russell T. Davies, and Don We Now Our (Blank) Apparel

Lady Gaga performs at KIIS FM's Jingle Ball at L.A. Live's Nokia Theatre

• Happy Birthday to the faboo Margaret Cho, who turns 43, and our own faboo Cathy.In.Canada, who's ... ageless.

• Russell T. Davies has put all of his work on hold indefinitely and returned to the UK while his partner Andrew Smith battles brain cancer. Our thoughts go out to both guys.

• All these years, and he's still a crappy writer.

• Showtime has renewed the Lisa Kudrow series Web Therapy for a second season.

• Partly thanks to football overrruns, last night's episodes of Once Upon A Time, Desperate Housewives and Pan Am all hit series lows.

• Ryan Kwanten will guest star on New Girl as a love interest for Zooey Deschanel. You'd think he'd want to get away from the undead.

• Kristin Stewart explains Christmas. Spot on.

• Fassy or Coop? I'm Team Fassy all the way.

• Via Towleroad comes outrage over a Michigan High School music teacher who removed the word gay from "Deck The Halls" for a children's Christmas concert.

• In case you missed Will's hot freakout on Friday, below you can see it in slo-mo, as Chad and Sonny try to calm him down. Is it wrong that I'm turned on by it?

• A bag of dessicated orange meat and hair is responsible for Lady Gaga's success.

• Below you can see our own Jim Halterman in a discussion of a classic episode of Little House On The Prairie for TV Guide Network's 25 Most Heartwarming Holiday Moments 2011.

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