Did you know that Mark Wahlberg once had a workout video? And did you know you could still buy it on Amazon? Now there’s no excuse for not having a funky bunch of bulging muscles. [via Buzzfeed]

The trailer for the upcoming Peter Jackson-directed film “The Lovely Bones” is out exclusively through Apple and it looks amazing. Based on the book by Alice Sebold, “The Lovely Bones” tells the story of a young girl named Susie Salmon (played by “Atonement”‘s lovely and brilliant Saoirse Ronan) who has been murdered and watches over her family from heaven as she comes to terms with her own death and desire to see her killer—played by a mega-creepy-looking Stanley Tucci—punished. Her parents are played by Rachel Weisz (um, who I sat next to in a movie theater once and she was so pretty and nice) and Mark Wahlberg, in a role that Ryan Gosling was originally supposed to play (he even got chubs!). I love Marky Mark, but every time he opens his mouth, I hear Dirk Diggler and/or David McCall, his character in “Fear,” and it throws me off. Not sure he can play a grieving father, but perhaps I will be proved wrong. Check out the trailer here! [The Lovely Bones]

Mark Wahlberg finally married the mother of his three kids yesterday in Los Angeles. Did he carve “Rhea 4 Eva” into his chest as a symbol of his love? Let’s hope!

They look unbearably annoyed Christmas shopping! [Los Angeles, 12/23/08]

Last night Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice-President, made not one, but two cameos on “Saturday Night Live”. I have to say, she was pretty funny! Although, if she and her handlers think all the talk of her hotness is sexist, is she contributing to the sexism by doing a skit where Alec Baldwin tells her she’s “way hotter in person”? Whatever, I laughed. Above, her first cameo (featuring special guests Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, AND Mark “Say Hi To Your Motha For Me” Wahlberg, and after the jump, the second, in which she thankfully does NOT rap.

Mark Wahlberg and Rhea Durham have two children together, and she’s pregnant with their third. We often wonder why they never seem to talk about getting married, or even engaged, because clearly things are good between the two (not that everyone needs to get married). But recently, Mark referred to Rhea as “his future wife.” While talking how he spent his 37th birthday, Mark said, “I had a beautiful day with my kids and my future wife. We went to brunch.” We are “awww-ing” right now. Maybe Amelia should follow suit. Instead of calling her fiancé her fiancé (because she hates that word), she could call him her future husband. [AHN]

Just when we think our groupie years are behind us, a pic like this comes out and makes us want to wake up at the butt crack of dawn to cry and scream “I Love You!” at the New Kids on the Block’s Today Show concert on Friday. The Boston boy band that disbanded in 1994 is back! Step by Step, they’ve been recording new material and teasing their fans with promises of a reunion and it’s finally here!  They’re releasing a single this spring, which will be followed by an album and TV show this summer. Might we also suggest re-releasing the NKOTB pillowcase? Now that there together again, we want to sleep with them. The Block, as they call themselves, have been hanging tough over the past decade: Donnie became an actor like his rapper/actor brother Mark(y Mark), Jordan was on the Surreal Life III, Danny formed a record label, Joey was on Dancing with the Stars and Jonathan became a real estate developer. But now they’re back in the booty shakin’ business and writing the songs for themselves.  Donnie said, “We are not pretending to be somebody else. We didn’t go country, no rap, no metal. We are who we are.”  Something tells us they’ve still got the right stuff. [Boston Herald]