• Jessica Simpson is reportedly in negotiations to judge American Idol and has met with the producers several times. Since Jess obviously won't be filling the role of the cranky Brit, "This is part of a massive overhaul of the show."

• Earlier, we learned that Mel Gibson's relationship with Oksana Grigorieva crumbled after a tree planting ceremony, but that wasn't the whole story; They were actually burying their daughter's placenta in the backyard.

[Los Angeles, June 9. Image via WENN.]

• Renée Zellweger was photographed at the Carolina Herrera boutique in West Hollywood — as a huge rack of wedding dresses went by.

[New York, May 19. Image via Getty]

• Michael Jackson won't be buried at Forest Lawn cemetery, and police sources say his body isn't going to Neverland either. Every other L.A. area cemetery denies he's headed to their facility too.

• Shanna Moakler, Co-Executive Director of the Miss California Organization, has confirmed that the pageant paid for Miss California Carrie Prejean's breast implants.

• Britney Spears wrote a hate sonnet to her mother and in slightly less mentally challenged handwriting than Paris's. We've been searching all morning for some famous literary figure to reference here but "Jerry Springer" is the best we could do. He did go to Harvard... [MSNBC]

• 21 years ago today coke was more expensive, Iran and Iraq were at war, and two Long Islanders named Michael & Dina gave birth to a child named Lindsay. Please grant Lindsay the serenity to accept that her parents will be a convincing excuse for her problems for another decade, the courage to leave her $10,000/day rehab and resume antagonizing Scarlett Johansson, and the wisdom to understand the difference between coke-addled binge drinking and coke-addled binge drinking that leads to less-endearing variations on Zach Braff. [iVillage]