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Phil Harris, the fishing boat captain from television's wildly popular reality series, 'The Deadliest Catch' has died.

The deep-sea fisherman, 53, suffered a stroke on Jan. 29 while in an Alaskan port off-loading a catch. He was flown to Anchorage for surgery, showed signs of recovery through the days following, but ultimately succumbed to the trauma.

"It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad - Captain Phil Harris," his sons Jake and Josh Harris said in a statement posted on the Discovery channel website. "Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end. For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down. "

Andrew Garcia, a father hoping to make a better life for his child, took the stage on the first night of the infamous Hollywood Week on 'American Idol' and sang a rendition of 'Straight Up.'

It was a risky choice, considering Paula Abdul, who made the tune famous, had left the show. But Garcia, with guitar in hand, nailed his toned-down version.

"That was genius," Kara DioGuardi told Garcia. "Paula would be screaming and yelling," she added. Watch It

The ladies of PopEater make predictions for the future of 'American Idol' - with Ellen DeGeneres coming aboard and Simon Cowell eventually jumping ship, does the show have a Sanjaya's chance in heck of surviving? Plus, the Girls on Pop call shenanigans on the latest "scandal" to "rock" this season of 'The Bachelor.' Watch It

What do you get when you take the daughter of Washington state barley farmers, dress her up fancy and send her to the Screen Actors Guild Awards with her Outstanding Drama Performance-nominated cast mates? If the farm girl in question is Mariana Klaveno of 'True Blood,' you get a charming, hard-working actress who quit her job waiting tables only months ago - despite snagging the role of Lorena, one of the major players in the upcoming season of the hit HBO vampire drama.

"I was still working at a restaurant right up until season two of 'True Blood,'" the lovely Klaveno told PopEater in an exclusive interview. "I was still working at a restaurant right up until season two of 'True Blood'. I held onto the job for a long time and it was what grounded me that I was a struggling, starving actress, and I didn't want to cut the security cord quite yet."

Louis Gossett Jr., best known for his Oscar-winning performance in the 1982 movie 'An Officer and a Gentleman,' is reportedly fighting the early stages of prostate cancer.

According to the Los Angeles-based KTLA, the 73-year-old actor went public with his illness today. The reason: to "set an example for the large number of African-American men who are victims of this disease because of the comparatively low emphasis in our community on preventative examinations and early treatment."

When you think about it, the corporate environment is kind of a weird place. Socially, it almost works like a miniature version of society as a whole. In other words: Anyone who is positioned in the upper levels of management hierarchy is, in that particular company, treated like a celebrity.

Let's say the head honcho's name is -- as in the case of Sunday night's premiere of 'Undercover Boss'; featuring the Waste Management CEO posing as a regular employee -- Larry O'Donnell. "Did you hear?" Co-workers will gab, "Larry O'Donnell is visiting today," followed by a sense of excitement and anxiety. It's not just that it's their boss. No, it's mostly because it's the guy they've seen in those corporate videos explaining the new employee referral policy. And in the eyes of that particular company, a celebrity. (I've seen it in person! At a company I worked for right after college, I witnessed an employee ask a member of upper management for an autograph.) But to us, the people not in that particular company, Larry O'Donnell is not a celebrity; no different than the guy on the corner selling hot dogs or the lady I spoke to today to dispute a credit card charge. Now, thanks to CBS's 'Undercover Boss,' that's no longer the case. Now these company big wigs are on network television... and there's a lot not right about that.