• Nicole Richie has obtained a restraining order, preventing two celebrity photographers from coming close to her or her kids.

• Etta James says when she was ripping Beyoncé about singing "At Last" for the President, "I didn't really mean anything…"

• Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong have broken up. After three months, "There was no drama or ugliness – They just decided to end things," says a source. "There is no hatred, just sadness." Surely Kate will find someone new in record time? She's good at that, right? [Us Magazine]
• This report says that Kate and Lance had…

• Ashlee Simpson, 23, is engaged to Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, 28. He got down on one knee; she said yes. Flat-iron-filled wedding to come! [In Touch Weekly]
  
• Is Ashlee pregnant? There's no evidence to that end, but whatever. [Us]
  
• Oh! Is Ashlee's team leaking Mariah Carey songs in hopes of creating less competition…

Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have called off their divorce. The Penns were spotted last night at an Eddie Vedder concert in San Francisco. Hope you can make it work, kids! • Paris Hilton's brother, Barron pleaded no contest to DUI charges at the Los Angeles courthouse today. He's been placed on 3 year probation,…

• Ashton Kutcher punked the paparazzi, and all of us: That shaman Paris Hilton was hanging out with — who turned out to be an actor — was part of a stunt for Kutcher's new show, Pop Ficton. The prank show targets paparazzi and gullible media outlets. Now lots of crazy stories (like the one about hepatitis at the…

Tabloid staple and oil heir Jason "Gummi Bear" Davis was formally charged by the L.A. district attorney's office with felony possession of a controlled substance and misdemeanor driving under the influence, says TMZ. The controlled substance in question? Heroin. • The L.A. D.A.'s office was up to their elbows in heirs…

• Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to wed? Finally? Now that she is preggo with twins? OMG! [MSNBC]
  
• Did Britney get married when she went to Mexico last month? Maybe! Of course, her man, Adnan Ghalib, is already married. But! Wedding documents exist! Says a source. [Gatecrasher]
  
• Meanwhile, Britney seems to have made up with…

Rick and Kathy Hilton are vying for the Spears award for worst parents ever: 18-year-old Barron Hilton, Paris's little bro, got a D.U.I. this morning. • Are Dita Von Teese and Backstreet Boy A.J. McLean dating? Oddest couple ever. • Friend of Jamie Lynn Spears, Miley Cyrus says that Jamie is "really excited" to be a…

• It was a Britney Christmas: She drove around aimlessly, occasionally pausing to assault members of the paparazzi, before settling down to maybe have sex with a member of the paparazzi. This transpired at the Peninsula Hotel. (Her house was "too messy," she claimed. We believe her!) She made a 1 a.m. trip to Rite Aid…

• Earlier this week, Britney Spears crashed her black Mercedes into a parked station wagon in L.A. and then told the paparazzi, "I'm a brainiac!" We're not sure if the pop star left a note. Additionally, Britney's head is being Photoshopped onto someone else's body in the marketing campaign of her new fragrance, since…

• Onetime Academy Award-winner and friend-of-Elmo Cuba Gooding Jr. saves a gunshot victim outside Roscoe's House Of Chicken 'N' Waffles in L.A. [Gatecrasher]
  
• It's a good thing Lindsay Lohan's mom Dina (the "White Oprah!") never tried to run with that "former Radio City Rockette" thing since it turns out she was never a…