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Jesse McCartney is headed back to TV.

The “Shake” singer has landed a part in the pilot Locke & Key, a family drama with supernatural elements based on the comic by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son).

McCartney will be Ty, the oldest of the Locke children who all return to Keyhouse, the New England family mansion of their slain father, and with their mother, try to deal with an evil ghostly specter who haunts them.

The singer/actor will also get a chance to sing on the show as Ty is a musician.

FOX is expected to make a decision by May whether or not to produce the show for the 2011/2012 TV season.

Twilight fans who wanted Robert Pattinson to hook up with Nikki Reed are going to be sorely disappointed (granted they were in the minority.) Reed has apparently found her way to Paris Latsis, the heir to a Greek shipping fortune who was engaged to Paris Hilton a couple of years ago. The duo has been flying uner the radar for quite some time and now things are serious enough that they have met each other’s parents.

“They met about six months ago and have been together since. The reason she traveled over to Greece was to be with [Paris],” spills a supertight bud to Nik. And we mean supertight.

Remember when we told you why N.R. was skipping out on Italy back in May? Well, she wasn’t only spending time with her family, but it seems that she was introducing them to Mr. and Mrs. Latsis, too!

“Both families have met, and really like each other. That’s how serious it’s getting between [Nikki and Paris],” ‘fesses a good friend of the couple. “Robert Pattinson is nowhere on the radar. She’s upgraded, in her mind.”

Hopefully Reed and Latsis are as happy as reported.

Nickelodeon’s wildly popular animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender is getting live action treatment from director M. Night Shyamalan and now Jesse McCartney is in talks to portray Zuko, the exiled and banished Prince of the Fire Nation. Nothing is confirmed as of yet.

The ‘Leaving’ singer is branching out more and more into acting, with a special appearance back in the fall on Law & Order: SVU and in March, he will be a multi-episode guest star on Greek.

Speaking of cast for The Last Airbender, (Avatar will be dropped from the movie title because Titanic director James Cameron has a new movie called Avatar coming out,) Jackson Rathbone (Jasper in ‘Twilight’ ) has been reportedly cast as Sokka, Aang’s sidekick and Katara’s brother. The Last Airbender is due out in 2010.