TV viewers want to know: Where's Marni's rock?

Fox 9 anchor Marni Hughes' wedding band has returned.

You may relax, Michael Carter, David Anderson, Karen Brueske, Clay Munt and Steve Holmes. "What happened to that large rock Marni wore on her wedding finger?" e-mailed Carter. Holmes thought he was seeing things and tried to interpret signals, "Is it just me or has Marni Hughes moved the rings from her ring finger to the middle finger of her left hand? Some kind of sign or message to somebody?"

Hughes laughed when I told her viewers (and these are just the e-mails I hadn't deleted) noticed. "No story there. My ring was at the jeweler for a couple weeks. It's back on now. It didn't even cross my mind that anyone would notice. I appreciate that people are watching."

As for the shorn locks, which make Hughes' good looks even more pronounced, she said, "I've been considering a change for a lot of the summer. I've been known to play with my style and my cut a lot, so I wanted to do something fresh and fun and easy. It is all of that. It has saved me a lot of time getting ready each day; can spend more time with the kids in the morning."

As hard as Hughes has been working since Robyne Robinson left, Marni needs all the shortcuts she can work into her day.

'ET' looks inside for new Hart

Wow. I thought Minnesota's Samantha Harris was a shoo-in to replace Mary Hart, who's announced that in 2011 she'll step down as anchor of "Entertainment Tonight" after 30 years.

No Gold star for this shootLarry Fitzgerald Jr. didn't know what to make of a PR firm notifying Twin Cities media that he would be part of a photo shoot at a suburban gym.

Fitzgerald left me thinking that somebody unconnected to the Arizona Cardinals wide receiver was claiming to represent him. The story: While home for the summer, before reporting to training camp, Fitzgerald said he worked out daily at the U. But in June local media were notified by Fishman Public Relations, based in the Chicago area, that the Fitzgerald shoot would be at the Blaine location of its client, Gold's Gym.

"Blaine?" said Fitzgerald when I caught up with him. "No."

I showed him a copy of an e-mail sent by Charliese Agnew of Fishman. Meant nothing to him.

So I called Agnew and asked when she last talked to Fitzgerald. "Oh gosh," Agnew paused and laughed, "I couldn't tell you, to be honest. I know I haven't been able to get him on the phone. Checking my e-mails here ..."

Agnew's Fishman colleague Katie Henry later called to suggest the Blaine outpost of Gold's could explain it.

"It was [a photo shoot] he was doing for [himself], his people," said the Blaine gym's G.M, who would only identify herself as Linda and claimed to have "no clue" about Fitzgerald's line of work, until told. She said those people changed the shoot to his high school, so "he might not have" known that Blaine was ever part of the scenario. "This was through our corporate office it was arranged," she said.

When asked via Twitter if an assistant committed him to a photo shoot in Blaine that was cancelled, Fitzgerald replied: "Not that I am aware of."

Not the shy, retiring type?

Deadspin.com has dug up a sexting scandal involving Brett Favre.

The story at tinyurl.com/29h62y5 is adult reading. While Favre's a noted prankster, if this is true it's going to be amusing to explain to his wife.

Before I left the office Friday I asked Deadspin's editor A.J. Daulerio, via e-mail, if he'd heard from Favre's lawyer? "Not yet?" Daulerio said, confiding details that explain why he's not particularly worried.