As we go into the weekend, here's a handy shortlist of the biggest stories of the week on AfterElton.com. And to get you into a playful mood, each Friday's final post will feature a pic up top that desperately needs captioning. Each week we'll pick our fave suggestion from the comments and run it in the following week's post. Have fun!

• Speculation about gay contestants on American Idol gets bigger and bigger as Danny Noriega gets cut.
• Project Runway's finale posted Bravo's best ratings 18-48. We not only spoke with winner Christian Siriano, but Chris March who came in fourth.
• Brent sacrificed himself to take a "revealing" look at the history or men's undies in the movies. Way to take one for the team, Brent! Then we both sacrificed ourselves by vlogging in our undies.
• The AfterElton Flying Monkey looked at bromances, gay subtext in cartoons and much more!
• Alec Baldwin discusses his younger, less talented, and and less good-looking younger brother's views on gay marriage.
• Of course, we recapped Torchwood even though there was no Janto action.)
• Max Mutchnick talked about Will & Grace, most notably not making straight people think about gay sex. Well, my!
• It turns out that Insightout Book Club isn't going out of business. Break out the bubbly!
• As the World Turns: Brian wonders if the show has jumped the shark and then ATWT proves him right by having Noah marry Ameera to keep her from being deported. If the Feds get wind of this, Noah might be joining his dad, Captain Pervy, in prison. Good times!
• Gay Ronnie is once again on the chopping block over on Make Me a Supermodel, but we'd bet anything he isn't going home. Prison Ben made up for last week's homophobic behavior by suggesting a little nuzzle with Ronnie. Now we forgive him.
• Cyndi Lauper's True Colors tour is back for a second go around this summer.
• The U.K.'s AXM magazine asked the gays who they find hot. Personally, I think our readers have much better taste!
• And don't forget our cornucopia of vlogs including That's Antertainment!, Angry Puppy, and Idol Chat
  
• And as usual, with the help of Nate Berkus, As the World Turns' scoop and guessing who is gay on Pushing Daisies, ee had the Best.Gay.Week.Ever!

Finally, last we asked you to caption this photo and promised we would pick the best answer to post today. And the winner is...

"You'll never guess what's in the Secret Sauce"

Congratulations to Moviedearest! Be sure to drop your caption ideas for this week's picture in the comments, and have a great weekend!

Openly gay interior designer Nate Berkus has been tapped to host an upcoming ABC reality series, Oprah’s Big Give. This is newsworthy because it will be the first time ever that an out gay man will host a network reality show. And not just any reality show, but one where things, big things, are "given away!"

Nate's role on this upcoming series sounds like it might be roughly equivalent to Ty Pennington's role on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - it's a great thing to have a gay man cast in the benevolent/positive role of making dreams come true. And the fact that Oprah Winfrey is involved is just icing on the cake. Practically everything she touches turns to gold. I'm a big fan of Berkus, and I'm thrilled that Oprah is offering him this opportunity. So thrilled that I can almost forgive the woman for foisting Dr. Phil off on the American public.

Just in case you're not that familiar with the Nate Berkus, here's a little background info on the man. He opened his Chicago design firm, Nate Berkus Associates, in 1995 at the tender age of 24. The firm quickly grew and landed high profile commercial projects such as Spago, Barney’s of New York and W hotels.

In 2001 Nate was invited to make over a small space for an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. He was a big hit with the audience (and with Oprah) and would go on to become a featured design expert for the show.

In early 2005, Nate appeared on Oprah for one of the most watched episodes of that year. He was there to talk about surviving the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster. He and his partner Fernando Bengoechea, were vacationing at a beach resort in SriLanka when the tsunami hit. While Berkus survived, Bengoechea is still missing and presumed dead.

• Tori Spelling was ordained by mail to officiate her first wedding -- and it was between two men! I really love this chick. Er ... Reverend chick.
• John Barrowman talks in depth about gay rights, straight media, and his character: "Anything with a postcode Jack will shag!" Note to self: get ... postcode ...
• John over at NewNowNext posted a fascinating interview with soul singer Donnie, who recently performed at Black L.A. Pride and has plenty to say about the idea of a "gay community", gays in the Church, and more.
• Oprah's design guru Nate Berkus (who tragically lost his lover in the Eastern Asian tsunami and was invited by Oprah to speak about it in 2005 on the show) is on the cover of Out.
  
• Can you I.D. the actor (who played gay in a gay film) in this car commercial?