The 49-year-old funnywoman, who campaigned for same-sex marriage on her Bravo series My Life On The D-List last season, has been tapped to portray a lesbian activist on the Feb. 6 episode of NBC’s long-running crime drama.

SVU executive producer Neal Baer revealed the Emmy winner as the series’ next big guest star on Twitter Tuesday, after asking fans to take part in a Hangman-type game to guess who would guest star.

Griffin was recently announced as the host of the dance competition Let’s Dance, which was shelved by ABC earlier this week.

Griffin, 48, has signed on to helm Let’s Dance, a new series which while premiere immediately after the Nov. 23 finale of Dancing With The Stars, TheWrap.com has learned. The new series will feature celebrity contestants reenacting their famous routines from past music videos, movies, and musicals on a live weekly dance-off that will run for just five episodes.

“The competition will be hot — and hilarious — as teams of celebrities pay comedic homage to famous dances while competing for a $250,000 grand prize for their favorite charity,” according to a statement from ABC Tuesday. “The show will include single dancers, duos and groups, all competing against each other to wow a panel of judges and viewers across America who will be voting each week leading up to the series finale.”

The panel of judges and celebrity participants will be announced sometime in the next few weeks.

“I caught myself cracking up out loud,” Kate said of Kathy’s spoof in a trailer for the mock biopic Kate Is Enough. “You’re awesome.”

Fresh off her rumored ban from the daytime gabfest, Kathy walked out showing off her new book, Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin, which is number one on The New York Times non-fiction list.

We can hardly wait!

The reality-starring Octomom will confront comedienne Kathy Griffin on The View Friday, following Griffin’s recent media blitz on the Gosselin, her estranged husband Jon, and the family’s TLC reality series Jon & Kate Plus 8, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Wednesday.

Kathy — who will be on hand to promote her new memoir Official Book Club Selection — has been publicly poking fun at Gosselin for weeks, including an appearance in a short film featured on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live — which saw Griffin spoofing Gosselin in a wig and bikini.

While Friday’s Battle Royale will mark Gosselin’s third appearance on The View this week, Kathy will be returning to the program for the first time since being unceremoniously “banned” several years ago.

Official Book Club Selection writer Kathy Griffin couldn’t leave the Kimmel stage last night without giving the spitfire star of TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8 the parody treatment. The fiery redhead teamed up with Star Trek actor George Takei to poke fun at The Gosselins — reality royality turned tabloid trash — in the spoof trailer for a fictional biopic entitled Kate Is Enough: The Kate Gosselin Story.

“One time, I spent the night at Jack’s place. I got up the next morning to take a shower so I could leave. When I got out, I couldn’t find anything to dry myself with. ‘Jack, where are the towels?’ I yelled out. He said, ‘Um, I just have one that I use for a bathmat and a towel. So it’s the one on the floor.’ Totally gross. That reminds me of some of the hookups I had in college,” the Emmy-winning star of Bravo’s My Life On The D-List told The NY Post’s PageSix Tuesday.

The skit is a trailer for a fictional biopic about TLC’s Jon & Kate Plus 8, and features the Emmy-winning star of Bravo’s My Life On The D-List as Kate and Takei as her estranged husband Jon.

In promo pics released by ABC on Friday, Kathy shows off a spot-on impersonation of the original Octomom — right down to her signature spiky blonde haircut. In one of the photos, Kathy, in character as Kate, catches George, as Jon, in an embrace with a cheerleader.

Check out the full clip on Jimmy Kimmel Live next Wed., Sept. 9 @ 12:05 AM on ABC.

Hollywood’s hottest “new couple” dished on their date at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards in a chat on Larry King Live Monday.

The couple held hands as they walked down the red carpet at the event, hosted by The Jonas Brothers.

“She’s beautiful and funny,” Levi said of his decision to accompany the 48-year-old redhead to tonight’s show. “She’s the star of the night.”

“Miley, try to top this!” Kathy added.

The 2009 Teen Choice Awards, honoring the year’s biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted by teens, will air Monday, August 10 on FOX.