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What a week for Lady Sovereign! The ecstasy of victory, the agony of defeat. Playboy bunnies, jelly donuts. Late night television.

It all started Monday night, January 8, when Sov performed at San Francisco's Mezzanine club (a make-up show for when she was sick back in November). However, this wasn't an ordinary performance. It was a battleground.

Remember that guy in San Francisco who raised $10,000 to take Lady Sovereign on a date? And remember how she dissed him in the press after the date? Well, that guy brought a friend on the date. And that guy happens to be a rapper. A rapper who calls himself Jelly Donut. And who dresses up like a giant donut. Which he did at the Lady Sovereign show at the Mezzanine on Monday night. And challenged Sov to a rap battle.

Sov was not having it. Apparently, she spit on, poured Red Bull on, and eventually kicked out the man in the donut costume. However, the crowd was on Jelly Donut's side, bombarding her with chants of "BATTLE JELLY DONUT!" and pieces of paper with an image of a donut on them (provided by the man himself, of course).

You can read all about the melee here, and see photos from it here. And check out a video clip here.

We still don't really understand why she turned him down. It's a great publicity stunt! Look at the Decemberists: what would have happened if they said "no" to Stephen Colbert?

But the madness didn't end there for the biggest midget in the game. Tonight, after her show at the El Rey in Los Angeles, Lady Sov will head to the Hollywood club Mood to co-host a premiere party for the television show "The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" along with a couple of Playboy models (Athena Lundberg, Miss January 2006 and Monica Leigh, Miss March 2006, if you must know).

What will Lady Sovereign, Janice, and the bunnies talk about? Hair care? Sex tips? Grime mixtapes? Grillz?

Finally, this Friday, January 12, Lady Sovereign will replace Islands as the musical guest on "The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson" on CBS. Apparently, Islands had some visa problems and couldn't get into the country. So it's Sov to the rescue.