Is Britney Single & Looking To Mingle?

dodai — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:00:00 EST

Have Britney Spears and Adnan Ghalib broken up? Sam Lutfi claims she's requested a restraining order against Ghalib; Ghalib says he's heard no such thing. Guys, guys: Maybe you should just arm-wrestle or flip a coin? Sheesh. [People]
Meanwhile, Britney's working on "amazing" choreography for her song "Hot As Ice." [People]
And Brit will be on the cover of the March issue of Blender, because she hasn't had enough press lately. [Page Six]
Reports claim Gwyneth Paltrow's hospitalization was for a "gastrointestinal situation." Macrobiotic food poisoning, anyone? [Page Six]
Law & Order and Sex And The City star Chris Noth is a daddy! His girlfriend Tara Wilson has given birth to a baby boy, Orion Christopher. Hey, did you know she was black? Me neither. [People]

The assistant to famed photographer Annie Leibovitz lost his iPhone in a taxi — along with contact numbers for luminaries like David Bowie, Diane von Furstenberg, Stella McCartney and Anna Wintour. The contacts got downloaded and drunk-dialed... Can't Steve Jobs track this kind of thing? [Gatecrasher]
Barack Obama fan Oprah has given Kosher Sex author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach a show on her XM radio channel; Boteach is a supporter of Rudolph Giuliani. Whoops. [Rush & Molloy]
Kiefer Sutherland is out of the slammer! He served 48 days in Glendale City Jail for his second DUI conviction. [TMZ]
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt: Planning on looking at orphanages in Africa over Easter? [TMZ]
Eva Mendes wore a revealing dress on a French TV show and had a little nip slip. [The Sun]
Jada Pinkett-Smith claims bff Katie Holmes is "running her own show." Explains Jada: "Tom don't run nuthin' in that house. It is Katie's house. It's her world." [MSNBC]
Lindsay Lohan and Eddie Murphy are nominated for the Razzies — awards for the worst performances, in I Know Who Killed Me and Norbit. Yay! Or, uh, Boo! [USA Today]
Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman's son Max had his bris over the weekend. Ouch. And Mazel tov! [E!]
Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush are at the Sundance Film Festival (?!?) and were seen taking pictures in a booth sponsored by a condom company. What is the world coming to? [TMZ]
Also at Sundance: A documentary about Roman Polanski has lots of buzz; the Weinstein Co. is distributing and HBO acquired North American rights. [Reuters]
Bam Margera's uncle, Don Vito, was sentenced to two years of probation for cocaine possession (on top of the 10 years to life on probation he got for sexual assault on a child). [AP]
White lotus flowers in hand, actress Mia Farrow led a protest at the Khmer Rouge Cambodian prison notorious for torture. Police blocked the group from lighting a torch outside the site and Farrow was "jostled" before she and the other protesters left the scene. [Independent]
Militants in Nigeria have invited George Clooney to visit the area as a "messenger of peace." Mmmm. Clooney. [Time]
A German historian has compared Tom Cruise's Scientology speech to Nazi propaganda spewed by Joseph Goebbels. [Telegraph]
In an interview, Charlize Theron said she loved the Turkish city of Budapest — which, of course is in Hungary. She probably meant Istanbul? [Daily Mail]
Cloverfield was a monster at the box office this weekend, shredding Katherine Heigl's 27 Dresses. [Reuters]
RIP Suzanne Pleshette. [TMZ]

Britney Spends $100K A Month On "Entertainment"

Dodai — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 09:00:00 EDT

Britney Spears spends $102,000 a month on entertainment and $16,000 on clothes, according to court papers detailing her finances. She also has $50,000 going to her mortgage, $10,000 for utilities and $6,000 for child care. A month! She should hire us. For $102K a month we could be soooo entertaining. [Page Six]
Guess what? Despite doing hardly any traditional promotion, Britney may have the number one CD in the country by the end of the sales period on Sunday. [E!]
An arrest is imminent in the case involving abuse allegations at the school for girls Oprah Winfrey founded in South Africa. [People]

Heather Mills says she pleaded with husband Paul McCartney for a "gentle and quick" divorce. "I'm going to be crucified. I'm going to have a modern-day stoning. You know why we split, you know the truth," she told him. Sick of this yet? [Page Six]
Does rapper Eminem (twice divorced from Kim Mathers) have a new girlfriend? Do you care? [Page Six]
Jennifer Garner debuted on Broadway last night — she plays Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac — and got decent reviews from The New York Times and her husband, Ben Affleck, who said, "She did fine!" [People]
The new Spice Girls video is debuting today! Come on, say you'll be there. [People]
Tennis star Martina Hingis tested positive for cocaine — but claims she is "100% innocent" and would rather retire from professional tennis than try and fight the doping officials. Snort! [People]
Amy Winehouse is appealing her $714 fine for marijuana possession in Norway — she didn't understand that accepting a fine in Norway is the same as pleading guilty. Also, she was probably stoned. [People]
Amy Winehouse's dad wants her husband Blake to go to jail (he'll be in court on an assault charge in a few weeks) because it'll give Amy time to sort things out. Seeing as how she is so attached to Blake, it'll probably make her more insane, but whatevs. [Mirror]
You've heard time and time again about the stuff they fake on The Hills, but this is a new one: Producers are casting the part of Heidi Montag's maid of honor. When are they going to do the episode where Spencer is in a minor accident that leaves him temporarily mute and wheelchair-bound? [E!]
Blind item! This one is from Ted Casablanca, so we're translating here: A fairly good-looking guy from semifamous lineage, who has appeared on TV but also dabbles in music and design, got a nonfamous chick knocked up. And she's keeping the baby. And it's not Shia LaBeouf, Tony Romo or John Mayer. [E!]
Vincent "Don Vito" Margera, who often appeared on nephew Bam Margera's show Viva La Bam and Jackass on MTV, was convicted on two felony counts of sexual assault on a child Wednesday. He reportedly cried out "Just kill me now" and fell to the floor as the verdict was read and is now on suicide watch in jail. [MTV]
Actor Mark Ruffalo's wife has given birth to a daughter, their third child. [People]

Jezebel: don vito

Is Britney Single & Looking To Mingle?

Britney Spends $100K A Month On "Entertainment"