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Event Date(s): 10/23/2011 | Event Location(s): New York City, New York, United States | Description: 08:50:16 STILLS Photos of actor George Clooney and his girlfriend Stacy Keibler EJ 08:51:03 CLIPS: Video clips of a little girl crying after being told she was going to Disney World. CLIPS: Video clips of two children reacting to being told they were going to Disney World instead of Chattanooga, crying and their parents commenting on they never hearing anyone crying about going to Disney World instead of Chattanooga. 08:52:14 STILLS Photo of singer-actress Jennifer Lopez performing EJ 08:52:39 EXT DAY MS: Lopez and her then-husband Marc Anthony walk the red carpet. MS: Lopez and Anthony pose on the red carpet. MS: Lopez poses on the red carpet. 08:53:17 STILLS Photo of singer Jessica Simpson EJ 08:53:28 INT Shots of Simpson posing on the red carpet. MS: Simpson performs in concert. Today contributors Courtney Hazlett and Lola Ogunnaike join Lester Holt and Jenna Wolfe live in Studio 1A. JENNA WOLFE: Good morning to both of you. Ms. COURTNEY HAZLETT: Good morning. Ms. LOLA OGUNNAIKE: Good morning. LESTER HOLT: Nice to see you. George Clooney has a new love in his life. Anybody starting the clock as to how long it's going to last? Ms. HAZLETT: Not long would be the short answer. Listen, as an admirer--a big admirer of George Clooney's for a long time... HOLT: Big admirer. Ms. HAZLETT: ...I could sit Stacy Keibler down and tell her exactly how this is going to end if she's not entirely certain. Listen, George Clooney, he's not the marrying type. He's been very open about this. And that's why he's allowed to kind of bounce around from long-term relationship to long-term relationship. Because he's not making any bones about it. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: They usually last about two years. So, they're what, two months in. So she's got twenty-two months to go. And then it's over. HOLT: Enjoy him while you got him. Ms. HAZLETT: Enjoy him every moment while you can. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: But, Stacy Keibler's a big girl, so, I don't know, she might body slam him if he tries to break up with her. Ms. HAZLETT: I wouldn't call her a big girl. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: She's an Amazonian girl. She's strapping, so. WOLFE: She's an--she's an Amazonian girl. HOLT: OK. WOLFE: Did you pick up on that? Ms. HAZLETT: I'll let you and Stacy work that one out. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: She'll win. She'll win. WOLFE: That's right. The next thing I want to ask you about is we've been talking about it all morning. Remember that little girl's reaction last week when told she was going to Disney World. She couldn't believe it, she had stars in her eyes. She actually started crying. Well, this week two other kids, a different family were told the same thing. Wait until you see their reaction. Take a look at this. Unidentified Boy: You don't want to go to Chattanooga? Unidentified Girl: Mommy, we are going to Chattanooga. Father: I have never heard anybody cry because they are going to Disney World. Mother: Instead of Chattanooga. Father: Instead of Chattanooga. WOLFE: Is this just the ultimate backfire? The ultimate--she's really crying. Ms. HAZLETT: Was the Chattanooga Commerce behind this? HOLT: I don't know. Maybe. WOLFE: Did they think Chattanooga meant something other than what we think it means? Not that there's anything wrong with it. HOLT: Maybe she was going to go see the choo-choo. I don't know. Ms. HAZLETT: All to expect the Chattanooga. Yeah. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: But these are the perfect kids to have during the recession, I'm telling you, right? HOLT: It's true. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: They're nice and cheap. WOLFE: What do you mean we're not going bargain shopping? Ms. OGUNNAIKE: Exactly, I want a a bargain vacation, mommy. WOLFE: Right. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: I mean, to go to Disney World it's like $5,000 for a family. No, no, no. WOLFE: No, we want to go to Chattanooga. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: We want to go to Chattanooga. WOLFE: We want to see some of the sights... Ms. OGUNNAIKE: Yeah. WOLFE: ...and sounds of Chattanooga. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: Those parents should be on their knees thanking the good Lord that their kids are cheap. WOLFE: You're right. HOLT: Now let's see about Jennifer Lopez. At a concert last night, she broke down in tears singing the hit song "If You Had My Love." And she said it was the first song she'd ever written about love, and this was the first time, Lola, we've seen her really, you know, talk about or at least react publicly to her breakup with Marc Anthony. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: Well, we don't know if it necessarily was that. It was safe to assume that it was that. Look, it's real. Ms. HAZLETT: I think she's crying over Bradley Cooper, Jenna. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: That's fair. But, yeah, it's a hard time. She's a mother of two. They were together for seven years. That's her longest public relationship. And we forget, yeah, she's out about and she's partying, and she's hanging out with Bradley Cooper; but behind all of that, she's probably really in pain. Ms. HAZLETT: And this the first kind of breakup of this sort in that they have kids. WOLFE: Mm-hmm. Ms. HAZLETT: You know, before when she's broken up with people after long-term relationships, it can kind of be a little bit of a cleaner break, move on, go on to the next person. But it's really--it's really a complicated relationship, and she still has that relationship with Marc Anthony. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: Mm-hmm. WOLFE: All right. Let's pick this up just a little bit. Because I feel a little down right now. Huge news. Ms. HAZLETT: Need a shower. HOLT: Thanks. WOLFE: Huge news. There's a chance that Jessica Simpson maybe could possibly be pregnant. And there's a chance that she could maybe be possibly be carrying, dah, dah, dah, a little girl. But did I read this correctly? She's not releasing it until she gets $500,000 from a magazine or newspaper? Ms. HAZLETT: Well, there's a lot of talk about what's going on exactly inside of her uterus. And her. WOLFE: Whoa! Ms. HAZLETT: And her representatives are not saying a word about it. They're not confirming, they're not denying. They're just not even like answering calls and e-mails at this point. But if Jessica Simpson is trying to look unpregnant, she's not doing the best job. WOLFE: Wow. Ms. HAZLETT: As a person who has been through this, you know, there are certain tricks you employ, and she definitely qualifies with some of those, you know, suspiciously baggy clothing tricks. If she is trying to wait until she sells the story so to speak to confirm it, this isn't something that's unusual. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: Well, she's a... Ms. HAZLETT: The pay to play idea happens a lot. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: And she's allegedly trying to get $500,000 for this story. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen at all. The most she'll probably get is about $100,000. HOLT: Yeah, but the baby pictures come along. That's always worth a little cash. WOLFE: That's a lot, still. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: But the money isn't the way it used to be. The only person commanding that type of paycheck these days is Kim Kardashian. And when she announces that she's pregnant, now that's a $500,000 payday. WOLFE: This guy's going to be paying for it. Ms. HAZLETT: (Unintelligible)...his check. HOLT: Courtney and Lola, thanks so much for coming on. Good to talk to you. Ms. OGUNNAIKE: Thank you. Ms. HAZLETT: You, too.