Inqlings: WRNB picks up Mo'Nique

WRNB (107.9) will add the new syndicated news-talk show hosted by plus-size actress/comedian/reality-TV star

Mo'Nique

(

Mo'Nique's Fat Chance

,

Ugly Betty

). Starts Monday.

The 3-to-7 p.m. live show also will launch in Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and Washington.

Mo'Nique (nee

Monique Imes

) will nudge WRNB's

Lady B

from afternoons to nights and

DC Todd

from nights to overnights. (Todd will prerecord the overnights so he will not lose sleep.) Mo'Nique's radio experience includes fill-in for

Michael Baisden

- now her competition on WDAS (105.3).

Also in radio activity: WUSL (Power 99) has officially named

Johnny V

to afternoons. V also is the hip-hop station's online-content coordinator. Power also promoted

Edwin R. ("Eddie F") Fennell

to assistant music director. He joined the station as an intern in 2001.

Vince Fumo

has no shortage of friends, and now the state senator is in line to get a few more. The other day his son,

Vincent Jr.

, set him up with an account on Facebook, the social-networking site. In other Fumo news, he just cut the asking price on his Fairmount mansion to $5.5 million, from $6 million.

NBC10's

Kristen Welker

has a part in DreamWorks'

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,

and she'll shoot her news scene today with director

Michael Bay

. The action-adventure stars

Shia LaBeouf

,

Megan Fox

,

Josh Duhamel

,

John Turturro

and

Tyrese Gibson

.

CBS3's

Ukee Washington

makes his

M. Night Shyamalan

film on-screen debut in

The Happening

. Only Washington's voice was heard in Shyamalan's

Signs

and

Unbreakable

. Again, Washington is a reporter doling out bad news. "That's the movies," says Washington, whose film and TV oeuvre includes

The Manchurian Candidate

(with cousin

Denzel Washington

),

Shooter

(with

Mark Wahlberg

), and several episodes of

Hack

(with

David Morse

).

Six Philly guys will dance today (10 p.m., MTV) on the

Randy Jackson

contest show

America's Next Best Dance Crew

. Making up the troupe Phresh Select are

Jon Bulack

(Jonny Electric),

Mark Boston Jr.

(Smart Mark),

Virgil Gadson

(Lil-O),

Jay Jao

(Rukkus),

Lor Song

(Blao), and

Andrew Ramsey

(Riot).

Dave Huddleston

, whose anchor finale on Fox29 was a week ago, is now really gone. Only yesterday, the station replaced his voice on its outgoing phone message with that of

Kerri-Lee Halkett

, who is temporarily twinned with

Dawn Stensland

on the 10 p.m. news. Meanwhile, the departures of Huddleston, sports guy

Don Tollefson,

and meteorologist

Rob Guarino

are not supposed to be the last. Insiders think that station brass - on a mission from corporate not only to improve ratings but to win - will pick off certain folks as their contracts expire. As for newcomers:

Brian Andrews

, the former South Florida newsie now working in Colombia, indeed auditioned for the male chair on Tuesday, and it went well - judging by the choice of ritzy Morimoto as Andrews' dinner destination with news director

Kingsley Smith

and station manager

Mike Renda

. Not that poorer tryouts get double lattes at Cosi, mind you.