News & Notes: Dawn Marie's Baby, Leyla Update, Pamela Anderson, More

A very pregnant Dawn Marie was at Hardcore Homecoming last night. She said her baby is due on January 7th. In a backstage interview during the webcast of the show, she said it will be a boy and his name will be Matthew. Her role last night was to hold the key for the main event in a cage match between Justin Credible and Jerry Lynn. In an in-ring interview earlier in the show, she said she realized when she was "released for wanting to have a family", that the fans and those who were involved with ECW were her true family. Dawn Marie got chants of "You got f***d" in response to her WWE release and a "MILF" chant. Also, Dawn Marie turned 35 years old on Thursday.

Diva Search contestant Leyla Milani will guest star on an upcoming episode of Pamela Anderson's television sitcom "Stacked", which airs on Fox every Wednesday night. Leyla will be a nurse on the show. She was on the set last week for filming and the episode will be airing soon.

Jesse Ventura has signed on with NBC to do a sitcom which should be airing sometime in 2006.

With Edge off the U.K tour due to a torn pec muscle, Lita has also been pulled from the shows. We're told Edge may be brought in for TV this week.