Scrubs star Zach Braff is set to become one of the highest paid actors on TV if the hit sitcom gets renewed by US network NBC for a seventh season.

According to sources, the 31-year-old actor has landed a deal that will earn him around $350,000 per episode for the 2007-08 season.

The new deal will put him in the top echelon of highest-paid male actors on US television.

Music mogul Simon Cowell has hired outrageous talk show host Jerry Springer to front his hit US TV talent contest America’s Got Talent..

Springer will replace chat show host Regis Philbin as the presenter of the variety competition series when it returns to TV this summer.

Springer, 63, was slated to host the show after becoming a fan favourite on the last series of celebrity TV talent contest Dancing With The Stars.

Scarlett Johansson made an early decision to be an independent woman after she was left devastated by her parents’ divorce.

The sexy actress admits her parents Karsten and Melanie’s split when she was 13, helped make her the successful young woman she has become.

Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is to be honoured with the first Outstanding Achievement Award from the organisers of Hollywood’s Israel Film Festival.

The Jewish funnyman will be the guest of honour at the launch of the 2007 festival next week.

“This was his year and we couldn’t have chosen a better person to recognise,” says Israel Film Festival director Meir Fenigstein.