As co-host of U.S. talk show “The View,” Rosie O’Donnell may have boosted the audience by 17 percent, but it seems not everyone was a fan! The comedienne - who engaged in a very public war of words with billionaire Donald Trump a year ago - has been voted the most annoying celebrity on lifestyle Web site Parade.com, despite being off-air for six months!

O’Donnell garnered 44 percent of the vote, followed by socialite Paris Hilton on 24 percent, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter on 16 percent, Beatle Paul McCartney’s estranged wife Heather Mills McCartney on 12 percent and celebrity blogger Perez Hilton on 4 percent.

Parade.com received almost 2,000 answers to the survey. U.S. actor Owen Wilson’s suicide attempt was deemed the most shocking event with 60 percent of the vote, while Britney Spears custody battle over her two young sons only surprised 7 percent. Nearly 90 percent also voted Spears the “tabloid mom” who most needs a parenting class.

After stints in rehab, country singing star Keith Urban was deemed most likely to stay clean for the long haul with 55 percent of the vote, while singer Courtney Love was least likely with 2 percent. Of the celebrity jailbirds, Martha Stewart was voted most likely to stay out of the big house with 69 percent of the poll, while “Lost” star Michelle Rodriguez - who has just started 6-month jail term in Los Angeles for probation violation - only scored 1 percent.

And if you had to be stranded on an island with one person for a week, 29 percent would like that person to be comedian Stephen Colbert, 23 percent chose presidential candidate Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton and 19 percent want her rival Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. President George W. Bush was the man of choice for 17 percent, while presidential candidate Republican Rudy Giuliani nabbed 12 percent of the vote.

The full survey can be seen at http://www.parade.com/popculture/pop_cul ture_eoy_2007.

The New York Philharmonic will play the U.S. and North Korean anthems during an historic visit to the reclusive Communist state in February.

The centerpiece of the visit by the United States oldest symphony orchestra will be a performance on Feb. 26 at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. North Korean music conservatory students will attend master classes by New York Philharmonic musicians, as well as the orchestra’s rehearsal.

Long-time foes Washington and Pyongyang are formally in a state of war but are engaged in a diplomatic process that could lead to the normalization of ties.

“This journey is a manifestation of the power of music to unite people,” said Zarin Mehta, president of the New York Philharmonic. “It is our sincere hope that these concerts will aid in the beginning of a new era between the peoples of our nations.”

But critics have questioned the appropriateness of the Philharmonic’s visit to North Korea whose government the United States considers one of the world’s most repressive and which has been accused of human rights abuses.

What do you think? Should they stay or should they go?

The Spice Girls are back — and so are rumors of diva-like antics and in-fighting!

But Melanie Chisholm, a.k.a. Sporty Spice or Mel C., says the stories are nothing but “a load of crap.”

“We’ve never been divas,” Chisholm told Reuters. “Our reputation in the business is that we all work very hard and we know that we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for everybody who was involved in our project.”

Nearly a decade after the five-member group became four — when Geri Halliwell left Chisholm, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton and Victoria Beckham — the Spice Girls reunited for a greatest hits album, released this week, and a world reunion tour, starting in Vancouver on Dec. 2. They will also perform at the Victoria Secret’s fashion show in Hollywood this week.

“We’re nervous,” Chisholm said. “It’s quite surreal, but everything has come flooding back, all of the songs, and being with each other and rehearsing together, it just feels very comfortable.” 

“We have got nothing to prove,” she said. “We just want to come back and live out the good old days.”

   Dustin Hoffman may be a Hollywood star, but at home he is just another embarrassing parent — getting in trouble for trying to set his son up with actress Natalie Portman. 
   While promoting “Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,” which also stars Portman and is released on Friday, Hoffman, 70, lamented his failed attempt.
    He said he first met the 26-year-old actress when he saw her perform in “The Diary of Anne Frank” in New York in 1997.
    “I did a very bad thing, which was I called up my son in Los Angeles and I said ‘I got her’ and he’s hated me ever since,” Hoffman told a news conference, laughing.
    “But I put him on the phone with Natalie Portman and he said ‘Dad, don’t pimp for me anymore, please.’ I didn’t heed the advice, it’s one of my faults,” he said. “She’s a lovely girl, I’m sad she’s not my daughter-in-law.”

British singer Seal says he doesn’t mind the whole world talking about his “package” after his wife, German supermodel Heidi Klum, chatted away to Oprah Winfrey about what attracted her to him in the first place.

During an interview with Reuters at our Times Square television studios on Wednesday Grammy-winner Seal laughed off comments made by Klum when the couple appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in October.

Klum told Winfrey that she first met her husband in a hotel lobby in New York City as he was returning from the gym wearing tight-fitting bicycle shorts. “I was sitting there and I was, like, wow,” Klum said. “I pretty much saw everything. The whole package.”

“That’s my wife,” said Seal, known for hits including “Crazy” and “Kiss from a Rose.”  ”She’s not backwards in coming forwards that’s for sure. It was a memorable experience and one I’m sure I won’t forget in a hurry.”

“But that’s why I love her. She tells it like it is — oh actually that sounds quite funny, tells it like it is,” he laughed.

The couple married in May 2005 and have three children — Leni, 3, Klum’s daughter from a previous relationship with Formula One race car manager Flavio Briatore, two-year-old son Henry and 11-month-old son Johan.

“She keeps it light and she keeps it fun and I am a lucky guy to be married to her,” he said. “As long as she’s happy that’s all that counts,” said Seal, whose fifth studio album “System” will be released on Nov. 13.