These are photos of Sara Gilbert and wife Linda Perry at the beach last week. They were enjoying a coupley moment and watching kids frolic in the surf. Writing about them means I’ll have 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up” in my head all day. That’s worth it for this story.

Sara announced her pregnancy yesterday on The Talk. She similarly announced her engagement on air. This was more dramatic. I don’t know when The Talk turned into Fear Factor, but there’s some “dare” theme going on this week. Sara was supposed to lay down on a bed of nails and have a cinder block smashed on her stomach. Sara decided not to do the dare. She said: “I believe in facing your fears, but I actually can’t do the dare because I’m pregnant.” Then Sara’s fellow co-hosts and the audience completely lost it. They went wild with excitement. Sharon Osbourne’s Botox face even moved a little bit. Here’s the video clip.

I haven’t seen that much screaming on a talk show since Oprah Winfrey’s “Favorite Things” episodes. What an announcement, and everyone is so happy for Sara and Linda. It’s nice to see some good celebrity news in this cycle.

Linda also has a new interview in this month’s issue of Curve magazine. I was going to excerpt, but all the bleeps would have made the text unreadable. Linda basically goes off on the pop stars of today who “run around half-naked singing a bunch of crap.” She’d like the music industry to “start getting back to when women were strong and actually saying something.” You can read the interview here.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN