• Lindsay Lohan almost didn't get to be in the new movie, Labor Pains, which starts filming Monday: The producers had trouble finding a company to insure her. But! Everything worked out. LL will play a woman who pretends to be pregnant so she doesn't get fired. She thrives on the attention she's getting despite "carrying a volleyball around on her stomach." It's supposedly funny. [Rush & Molloy]
• Nicole Richie was dancing like a wild woman with Mary-Kate Olsen in an L.A. bar, but when she saw a flash go off, she went over to the fan and deleted the photos. A source says she wasn't drunk but didn't want the pictures getting out. Sure, sure. [Rush & Molloy]
• Catherine Zeta-Jones has "lost her curves," though if she gained weight they would make fun of that, too. Ugh. [Daily Mail]
• Whitney Port of The Hills is getting her own show. Supposedly it will feature Whit as a bi-coastal babe working for People's Revolution. She always makes funny faces, but is she interesting enough to carry a spin-off? Remember how, in France, she didn't know how to pronounce Givenchy? [Pop Wrap]
• Kelly Cutrone, Whit's boss, says "I'm just worried that I'm starting to like her so much that I'm becoming too nice a character for TV." [Radar]

• Gerard Butler! Phantom Of The Opera sequel! Maybe! [JustJared]
• John Mayer and Pete Wentz hung out this week. We hear Pete got tattooed at John's house. [Pink Is The New Blog]
• Rapper T.I. has inked a three-picture deal with Screen Gems. First up, he'll be in a crime drama with Matt Dillon. And! An MTV reality show is in the works, of course. [Rolling Stone]
• 50 Cent is working on a movie about officers dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and his co-star is Val Kilmer. Fiddy and Val have bonded! And Mr. Cent gave Kilmer a 1965 Chevy Impala worth $100,000. Just because. [E!]
• NSFW pix of that nekkid dude in SATC are right here. [ONTD]
• Betty White and gorillas. [ONTD]
• Usher will never do drugs, because they killed his dad. [Mirror]
• Paris Hilton says she is not, repeat, not pregnant. You may now return to ignoring her existence. [The Sun]
• Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the Gossip Girl books, will have her first adult novels published in 2009. The first is set in a small college in Maine. [NY Times]
• Remember Vin Diesel? He and his girlfriend, model Paloma Jimenez, are parents of a new baby girl. Plus! He has another Fast and Furious movie coming out. So he's almost relevant again. [People]
• Shania Twain needs to heal her broken heart, you guys. [People]
• Did Tatum O'Neal have a nose job? [Awful Plastic Surgery]
• While we're at it, here's an older one: Did David Beckham have a nose job? [Good Plastic Surgery]
• And! Looks like Gabrielle Union also had a nose job. [Good Plastic Surgery]
• Kathy Griffin hosted Bravo's A-List Awards on Wednesday. She emerged on stage lying on a piano in a purple gown, singing, "Miley Cyrus will get a down-there virus." [Page Six]
• Is Ed McMahon on the verge of losing his home because of his "years of boozing" ? [Page Six]
• Hulk Hogan's son Nick has been transferred out of solitary confinement and into a cell with three other juneniles and a TV. Think he wants to watch Hogan Knows Best? [TMZ]
• In this video, hot hottie Jason Statham gets the paparazzi off his back by making them think they've stepped in dog crap. Cheeky chap! [TMZ]
• Mario Lopez and Karina Smirnoff: It's over. Karina's rep says "The relationship wasn’t heading in the right direction." Where were they going? South? [People]
• Heather Mills barked at people who were talking while she tired to give a speech about puppy mills. "Listen up in the back! I haven't been up for 24 hours and flew here from London to be ignored!" [Page Six]
• Bruce Willis is opening a bar in downtown New York and the locals are not happy, calling him one of those "right-wing Republicans" who is "opening yuppie wine bars in our neighborhood." [Page Six]
• Coolio: Makes money performing for Russian billionaires in Moscow? [Page Six]
• Melissa Joan Hart is not against doing some kind of sexy photo shoot, but, she says, "I'm not in a hurry to show my not-so-thin ass out there right now." Don't be so hard on yourself! [Page Six]
• Man, also trashing her own figure is Angela Kinsey of The Office: She just had a baby! And she's due at an awards show on Sunday. She says, "I definitely do not feel red carpet ready. The ol' body has not gotten back to normal but hopefully I can find some dress that hides what I need hiding." Sigh. [People]
• Miranda Cosgrove, who has her own Nickelodeon show and was in School Of Rock, has a music career. Is she the new Miley Cyrus? Listen and judge for yourself. [People]
• Movies like The Hulk are rated PG-13, but advertise during TV shows for little kids. Probably so the rugrats will want the toys and tie-ins. [LA Times]
• JK Rowling spoke at Harvard's commencement ceremony, saying, "We do not need magic to transform our world." It would help, though. [Yahoo News]
• "I'm the worst wife in the cooking department. I always thought you can’t be good at food and sex, but you can always order the food in. I’d rather he didn’t order in the sex." — Kate Beckinsale. [The Sun]
• "It's like marrying three different people a week, because you never know who's going to come out of the bathroom. Her five- minute look is my favorite. She looks perfect unmade-up." — Gavin Rossdale on wife Gwen Stefani. [Page Six]
• "I want someone who is not only a great lover, but who is also an old soul… That is mighty hard to find. These younger guys are so shallow they don't know what I am talking about most of the time." And older men? "[They] seem to think they are riding the crest when they decide to cash in and take it easy once they have hooked up with me, which becomes a burden and a bore." — Jane Fonda. [Page Six]

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