Continuing. A minor issue, but its growing. Like a but on monday. I think it was monday, she was supposed to be our lead guest. Chelsea handler was supposed to be our lead guest. And that means at 10 00, we go on live, that was gonna happen. At 8 30, ring ring, phone rings, chelseas not feeling good. Sick all night we were told. Sick all night. We decided it would be she decided it would be a good idea to confess on another national show. Because even at the time, we said now it would be interesting to see if she shows up at jimmy fallon. Lets watch. cause she did. Lets remember this. I wasnt sick. So you no, no i wasnt drunk or anything. I literally walked into a shower door this morning, i hit my eye and so everythings puffy. It was just like i couldnt go with Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotaba, whatever her name is. So then we were worried about the eye because thats a problem if you get hit in the eye. She looked darn good. She looked good. She might have great makeup artists. Also went that night to the glamour awards. You can do that with an eye problem. Then anyway she looked darn good, i have to give it to her. Looked great. In the new york post, we opened up today to page 6, there is an article in here about Chelsea Handler again and he it says lets see what happened, first it was her eye. What does it say here . Explain her publicist explained that she had Food Poisoning. Okay. But she rebounded quick enough to snuggle with her boyfriend. Thats the rest of the article. Happy they are back together they had broken up. Remember what i said to you monday, bet it is something to do with andre belaz, if that is how you pronounce the last name. We still dont know. Perez hilton decided to get in on the game, i dont know if we can show it, we have to clear it and pay money and things. Perez. Com called this feud either a drunken celebrity feud, a boozy feud. I dont think it rivals donald trump and Rosie Odonnells feud. Who am i . The vodka chelsea and the vino nothing to do with alcohol. None of this here is the thing. We have the alcohol on the show because of Chelsea Handler, do you remember that . A long history with chelsea and we are fond of her, dont get us wrong. We did not go looking for this feud. When i first started the show, 4 1 2 years ago, out in on the plaza before we got kicked off for rowdiness. Here is perez. What does it say . I would like to toast chelsea what . New drunken celebrity feud. Thats hysterical. Anyway, she had just come out with her book, hello, vodka, its me, chelsea. Our producer prepared cocktails for her, just trying to be friendly. Yes. And so it came and went, the segment came and went, she went boyee bye, we had a nice time. She sold a lot of books, a of gazillion books. And i think it was Brooke Shields who came on recently after that and said, right after that, wheres my drink . And it just took off, okay . We have nothing to do with it. We heard a rumor, by the way, chelsea did apologize on a show that she apparently has. She has a show . I heard a rumor she has a show and she was sorry. We looked for it online and they dont upte their show online because we couldnt find it. Anyway the feud continues. We will find out if it is true. We are all about keeping the peace here, we want chelsea to come back any time she likes. We hope her black eye and her Food Poisoning cleared up. We hope she is happy with her boyfriend. We just want everybody to be happy. We just want to know if its something that we did. Hoda just hodas on a tirade. No, im not. Im fine. You know me, im so much nicer. But hoda . Hoda wants blood. Stop. So, hoda wants blood, we will get some blood. We have a little surprise for you, one direction was on the plaza yesterday. In fact, filled the plaza, end to end. It was unbelievable. Well, we kind of got gypped yesterday, we didnt get a song from one direction, we are making up for it today, they are going to sing a song on our air they taped yesterday called let me kiss you. It will be on later on the show. The plaza was packed, all the children are gone and the Christmas Tree is here. Its christmastime who sings that . The tree is here, an 80foot norway spruce, made its way from new jersey to our plaza. It weighs ten tons, 50 feet in diameter. This is the thing they string with a gazillion lights. And i think they are doing the Tree Lighting early this year. 27th 28th. Al roker and Savannah Guthrie will be hosting that. A big deal, the official start to the tourist season. All the tourists that come and every than works here runs for their life. But it is going to be beautiful. Takes a minute for it to settle. Always looks strange when it is first getting set up. Then they do their pruning and snipping and its going to look really good. So some target employees upset i understand this, hoda, i do. Something you guys know called black friday, open up the store for sales and stuff. Target decided they wanted to do it early on thanksgiving day, starting at 7 p. M. That means you wrap up your meal early and 9 p. M. 9 p. M. , im sorry. The workers have to go in and start working and the people who are looking for sales have to quickly eat and get online. Almost 200,000 people, target employees signed an online petition. Walmart, toys r us, kmart and sears are opening their doors at 8 00 p. M. Thursday, two to four hours before they kicked things off last year. We decided to do a poll at today. Com if you guys think it is a good idea to do it on thursday or friday. 60 on our today. Com poll says friday should be the start. At 7 a. M. Instead of people having to wreck their thanksgiving meal. Here is the thing, you know how you lose a civilization, hoda woman, not to get so heavy about it, but it is not overnight. It is one choice at a time. You all of a sudden decided to is more important to make money or sell something than to be a family and be together. And each time we do it, we wonder why we feel like a stranger in our own country. Because we used to celebrate. We used to actually take a day to be greatful for what we had as opposed to having to go out and get more stuff. Right. That within three days nobodys gonna care about. I know the economy is tough and i know that the retailers need the sales and all of that but when we lose perspective about what really matters in this world, we have lost everything, i think. Right. So lets shop on friday. I think so. I think youre right. I think so, too. Unless you dont have a family to celebrate with. But people i dont know, are these stores going to pay employees more to work on a holiday . I dont know if that is the case. A lot of people are out of work, you need the job. It is unfortunate. I really do. We are going to talk about a wednesday is it wednesday . It is wednesday. Winesday wednesday. Talk about a trend. This has been around forever though. This is a trend and it is Peanut Butter and pickles. It is National Pickle day, in case you didnt know. According to the new york times, a old favorite it has emerged again. I guess it is the tartness and the tanginess of the pickle coupled with the peanut. Any given morning, you and i can be found with our Peanut Butter. Every morning we have that guy, that natural stuff that we eat. Yeah. But not gonna do it with the pickles. Say it a grown up version of pbj because the salty makes it more delicious. Go for it, hoda. I think its pretty good. Really . Uhhuh. I like sweet. I like that try it . Make you sick. Thank you very much. But there is a simply naked wines survey which i will partake in. Almost all female wine drinkers apparently prefer to enjoy a glass on saturdays at a restaurant. What . Why . More than half of wine drinkers consider themselves confident. Thats hoda woman. About 20 of wine drinkers have skinny dipped. Im surprised it is not more, depending on how much wine they have had. 25 are bound to spontaneously dance. I have a great one coming up for tomorrow. Ihoda, youre going to love it. Drinking simply naked undressed red wine today. From simplynakedwines. Com. For more info, go to go to simply naked wines . Yeah. If it only told me, id tell you. We are thrilled, there was a chance yesterday that you and i could have looked really, really stupid, not on our own show but someone elses. What else. We went on who wants to be a millionaire with meredith vieira, an episode taped and air in may, in the spring, at the end of her taping schedule. Playing for a charity it is scary, when you get started, it is going to be like this is one of those exposing your lack of knowledge. I was a little nervous. Childrens miracle Hospital Networks or yeah, the other way around. Childrens Miracle Network hospitals. Anyway incredible organization. Meredith is such fun. She is a doll. She really is. It is interesting, you hear about these organizations that just get huge and they do such incredible work but when you think about it started out with marie osmond and john schneider, two people who came together and started it and now its millions and millions and millions of dollars raised so that children can go to these hospitals free of charge. Its just miraculous. Great, great charity. God bless them. It was great to see. Youll have to wait until may. But its worth it. I was proud of my hody. Best known for delivering punch lines but in his latest film, chris tucker takes a dramatic turn. Talk about the movie Silver Linings right after this. [ chuckles ] youre cute. [ door creaks, closes ] [ female announcer ] the protein effect. New special k protein cereal. With ten grams of protein and three grams of fiber. 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No one smells better in this studio than chris today. Smells fine. Tell us about your character in this. You are we said a little bit about it in a Psychiatric Hospital with Bradley Coopers character. Come on. A few weeks in there, i think we all crazy. No, its a fun character, real fun character. You know, i play a character named danny and he is he meets Bradley Coopers character in this Mental Hospital and he is just real positive and he just shows up throughout the movie, my character. And a fun character with a lot of depth. Quite the mouth on him . A little mouth. A little mouth. He talks about a lot of legal stuff, cause i guess he study a lot of legal stuff, he keep trying to get out of this Mental Institution but keep making him come back. What is he technically afflicted with . Whats his issue . I think he is like a little bit of i think he takes a lot of medication and he mixes it up and he has a little bit of probably all of it, ocd, bipolar. Confused. What a cast, by the way, Robert De Niro is in this, again, Bradley Cooper is in this, youre in this jennifer lawrence. Jackie weaver. How did you get involved in this film . I read the script, a cool little part, an important part in the movie, of course, i knew it was a great director, david o. Russell. So i thought it would be a fun cast also. Because i did it. They told the director, david o. Russell, i wanted to do it. He was surprised that i wanted to do it. How come . You are picky about what you do, which is smart. We do know you so much from this is not your first serious role either, though sort of semiserious comedic role. I did years ago earlier in my career, he was partly surprise the with the rush hours and comedy and that stuff. This was a Good Opportunity to show a different side. Im sure a lot of people come up to you want to know when is the next rush hour is coming out, those are such hits, you and jackie together. Is there another one . Or is that over . Talking about it me and jackie love to work with each other again. Hopefully we can get something going on soon. Do you see him often . Do you guys stay in touch . I see him a lot, when he is in the states, of course. So, we try we hang out a little bit when he comes to town. Uhhuh. Yeah. Talk about your juicy personal life. You know thats always sadly run out of time for that. Okay. The man who smells as good as you has got a juicy personal life. Great to see you. Thank you. Good luck with the film. Silver linings playbook hits select theaters on friday and opens nationwide on november 21st. We are all all about handsome men today. And every day for that matter. People magazine reveals the sexiest man alive, you might have heard, next. Questions . Anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating . Yeah. One Phillips Colon Health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. 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Of course, we know him from his amazing movies but magic mike movie, might have seen. The dancing. The body. I sat down with him, so clear how much more there was to him besides just the chiselled body. He is a sculptor. We didnt know that. He loves to give massages, he gets foot rubs in return from jenna. And he is so in love with his wife. So in love with his wife, which is sexy. He is ready to be a dad. He is ready to just have his family. He is as well rounded you hope for the perfect package, channing is it, a good guy. The beauty, you can page through this and see lots and lots of sexy guys, you have the chill guy section, on that list, love this list, my favorite, george clooney, hugh jackman and blake shelton. That is a hot trifecta. Well, george, of course. We asked these guys what is your idea of a good time . George said his idea is friends and family, late night dinner on some lake in italy. Lake como, right . And then blake shelton, being at home watching the Arizona Cardinals game. Normalcy. Look at blake. Lets see that. Exactly. And hugh just loves his family. He is all about pancakes, having a flat white, australian for a latte. On the beach with his family. A section in here called 50 shades of grey not what you think. Guys with gray hair. Salt and pepper hair. One of the guys you selected was matt lauer. Very distinguished. Have to say donny deutsch, too. Hoda doesnt want to. A little joke. Just kidding. Gorgeous hair. Why is brad pitt on the 50 shades . Scraggly beard. Last year, way more salt and pepper than we have seen him in the past. I think he is embracing the ageing process, he still looks amazing, still sexy, not going to take that away from him. I like when you go through the at any age kind of thing. Yes. Again one of our guys, a new guy, willie geist. Willie geist. Where is he . There he is. He is 37. 37. Yeah. He is amazing. You know, he just you guys know him, he is so lovable and has just such a selfdeprecating sense of humor that makes a guy sexy, too. How did you pick them . Just look through magazines and start picking through . Yeah. You have your favorites for sure. Each of us are going to say this guys got to be in there. Who would you pick if you were the sole person picking the cover . Myself . I sat down with channing, im a believer. Im telling you. You said you werent before. I wasnt sure, like in the past if he was ever gonna make it. This year, he has got everything. Fell in love with the man, the person. I swooned. I hate it when i swoon but i s