Earlier: Oprah's Favorite Things 2007: The Audience Freaks Out!

• Jon Gosselin said accusations made by Kevin and Jodi Kreider (Kate's brother and his wife) that his kids are overworked are absurd. He questioned the Kreider's credibility on the matter saying, "They were only in seasons one and two, anyway."

• Jon explained: "My kids probably film an hour and half to two hours a day and we only film three days a week... For Kevin and Jodi to go out there and say were filming eight hours a day and it's hard core, that's ridiculous." [Radar Online]
• Jessica Simpson is spending a ton of money to look good on her new show The Price of Beauty. "To get her camera-ready each episode will cost $25,000. She insists on using her own hair, makeup and fashion stylists, who are more expensive than J.Lo's." says a source. [The Daily Express]
• A source says Jessica Simpson is "bummed" about her split from Tony Romo, but it's for the best because, "[Tony] wanted her to be a house mom and be in Dallas, and he wants to go out and play – and not just football." The source adds, "Tony had his eyes on everyone but her towards the end... But let's not forget they lasted for a long time and he stuck with her even though the fans didn't like her." Should we really give Tony a medal for not dumping Jess when strangers complained about her? [People]
• Jessica Simpson Tweeted: "My godson Dylan giving me a hug after hitting me in the back with my louboutin leopard wedges." [Us]
• Kevin Federline is in Las Vegas filming scenes for a VH1 reality show about his life as a father of four, which hasn't officially been picked up. "He has been through a lot over the years, but handled himself very well. He's learned how to balance being a super single dad and the chaotic life of business, fame and fortune," says a source. "He strives to be a good father." [People]
• Kevin Federline was ordered to lose 45 pounds for the show. "Victoria Prince is supposed to have a big part in the show,"" said a source. They're billing her as Kevin's new Britney." [Radar Online]
• Marie Osmond will not be returning to TV this fall in a syndicated talk show. An executive at who works at the show's distributor said, "Our belief in Marie's creative vision for a new kind of talk show is unshakable, but in the end, the marketplace this year was simply unyielding." [Variety]
• Two Ohio police chiefs and a local mayor's son were arraigned on 10 felony charges, including burglary and tampering with evidence, related to a break in at the home of Sarah Jessica Parker's surrogate. They plead no guilty to all charges. [E!]
• A lawyer for Dr. Allan Metzger, Michael Jackson's former doctor, says he warned Michael abotu Propofol in April. "Jackson was looking for propofol and Dr. Metzger turned him down and advised him how dangerous it was," says the lawyer. "Apparently, Jackson was shopping around for the drug or looking for someone to administer it to him." [People]
• Eminem makes fun of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon in his new song "The Warning," but Nick says he's planning his next move. He Tweeted: "This ain't checkers. This is chess." Eminem must be so scared! [Perez Hilton]
• About 100 people attended the funeral of American Idol contestant Alexis Cohen last weekend in New Jersey. "I was shocked, stunned and mortified when I found out," said her ex-boyfriend James Kern, adding, "I can understand people having sympathy for the guy [who hit Alexis], but I hope he gets what he deserves, [People]
• Though Perez Hilton posted what looked like legal papers from Carrie Prejean suing the Miss California USA Organization for firing her, she says the papers were unsigned and unfiled. She said she doesn't intend to sue, but, "There's definitely some things that are false that they've said about me and I think definitely the book will - it's sort of like therapy for me. It's a way for me to just get out the truth, really. [Access Hollywood]
• A source says Reggie Bush broke up with Kim Kardashian because, "Reggie saw text messages on Kim's phone from Kanye West and flipped out on her... The texts referenced a night they hung out, how much fun he had, how hot Kim was, and more racy things that got Reggie's imagination running." [Fox News]
• The Chicago Bomb and Arson Unit investigated a suspicious backpack with wires hanging out of it that was found in a flowerbed outside of Oprah's TV studio this morning. After conducting tests they determined it wasn't a bomb. [TMZ]
• Design firm Delete is accusing Jane Fonda of stealing because her newly redesigned website looks almost exactly like theirs. [Media Bistro]
• Here's a video of an interview with Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and other stars of New Moon. Kristen and Rob are sitting next to each other, so clearly they're in love. [Pop Sugar]
• Dave Grohl's hometown of Warren, Ohio is naming a street after him. He'll appear at the town's naming ceremony to christen "Dave Grohl Alley." [Rolling Stone]
• OMG: Tyra Banks will appear on an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl. [People]
• Sebastian Stan says of dating Leighton Meester, "I'm a really lucky guy. She's the most interesting, sophisticated, talented and an extremely funny person that I know. She's really hilarious." He added that her kissing scenes on Gossip Girl don't bother him because, "The good part is I get to go home with her." [People]
• Penn Badgley and Chace Crawford ran into each other at Crate and Barrel, while they were both shopping with thier moms. Crawford says, "He was with his mom shopping for his new place, too... It was really funny. I was like, 'What are we doing here, man?' And he's like, ‘I don't know. Right now it looks like we came together with our moms to Crate and Barrel. What's going on?' It was embarrassing." [People]
• Jeff Fahey, the helicopter pilot from Lost is in a House of Representatives meeting for some reason. [Politico]
• RHONY's Bethenny Frankel continued her blog on E! today, writing about last night's premiere of RHOA. She writes: "I am so excited. Atlanta is by far my favorite Housewife outlet (including my own). It is so decadent, so juicy, such a ripe, sweet Georgia peach, and as is always the case with peach season, I never want it to end." [E!]
• RHOA's Kim Zolciak has filed a police report against NeNe Leakes, who Kim claims strangled her during a fight. [Entertainment Tonight]
• When asked why he's going to do stand-up again just seven months after having open heart surgery, Robin Williams joked, "I realized I was running out of merchandising money from Bicentennial Man." [People]
• Usher says mentoring at the Boys and Girls Club, "makes me a better man. It makes me a better individual... There's a difference between hard work and heart work, and this would represent heart work." [CNN]
• Christina Aguilera is working on her new record in a studio in her backyard. She says, "it just has been so perfect for me to just wake up in the morning, put on my flip-flops and sweat pants, and just go back in the studio and pretty much get into my creative cave and zone out that way, so it's been really convenient. So the paparazzi have probably been upset with me. I know they told my husband - they're like, 'Is she ever going to leave the house?'"[The Daily Express]
• Melissa Auf Der Maur says to ignore Courtney Love's announcements about a Hole reunion. She says, "My loyalty to the legacy of Hole is eternal. But there is no reunion mapped out at this point. I liked the idea of singing with her again, so I said yes, but no singing has happened and I am not aware of any plans for it. I have nothing to do with, and know nothing about, the legal beagle name game. It is true that Courtney and I have been in touch for the first time in a decade, in the context of female humans with significant history of sisterhood. We both love music and magic and are reconnecting because it's been too long." [The Daily Express]
• Chelsea Handler is upset her show wasn't mentioned in GLADD's report on the state of homosexuals on TV. "I can't speak for the rest of the network, but at Chelsea Lately, we're knocking it out of the park. We've hit a homo run," she said. "We always talk about gay issues and [sidekick] Chuy and I were king and queen of the Gay Pride Parade." She then pointed to various members of her staff she claimed were "the biggest gay in captivity" and "transitioning from albino man to albino woman," and said, "I'll be expecting an apology, which I assume will be on some hermaphrodite's stationery." [E!]
• Uma Thurman says, "The only thing that's more ridiculous than the film industry's obsession with eternal youth is trying to look ten years younger than yourself. I think it's very good to look healthy. I feel very happy to look healthy – but I don't want to live a tortured life of neurosis about it all." She adds that being pretty when you're young isn't all it's cracked up to be: "You know, it's like: ‘You're pretty, be quiet.' Pretty girls get self-conscious because they're constantly getting comments about how they look and they end up getting very shy or actually awkward. Even if they feel big about it – it sort of closes them down." [The Times of London]
• "I don't feel pressure to alter my appearance in any way, but being a girl, the media is more interested in what I choose to wear. People care about what I put on my body, which is strange." — Emma Watson [Ok]
• Satirical website Scrape.TV posted a fake story about Kanye West declaring himself the King of Pop now that Michael Jackson is dead. Unfortunately, other news outlets ran the article without realizing it was a joke. Kanye denied the story on his blog writing, "IT MAKES ME FEEL BAD THAT OBVIOUSLY I MADE PEOPLE FEEL THAT I WOULD BE CORNY ENOUGH TO SAY SOMETHING SO WHACK AFTER THE PASSING OF AN IDOL, A LEGEND AND MORE THAN THAT A HUMAN BEING WITH FEELINGS AND FAMILY.... I DON'T TALK TO PRESS OR DO TV OR DO PROMOTIONS OF ANY SORT. I'VE STOPPED CHASING AND BUYING INTO FAME. FAME IS LIKE CIGARETTES WITH NO SURGEON GENERAL WARNING. IT DESTROYS MOST PEOPLE AS IT DID TO THE TRUE AND ONLY KING OF POP. WE EXPLOIT OURSELVES AND EAT OUR OWN EGOS 'TILL THERE IS NOTHING LEFT. I HAVE A FEELING THAT THIS WON'T BE THE LAST FALSE STATEMENT WITH MY NAME ON IT, BUT THIS WILL BE THE LAST TIME I DEFEND MYSELF. I'M DONE." [Rolling Stone]

• Kim Kardashian on Jessica Simpson's body: "Call me crazy, but when I saw the picture, I was like, 'Oh my God, Jessica looks hot!'" Kim continues:

"I love high-waisted jeans, I loved that belt, and her hair looked fabulous. I get that she does look curvier, but to me, there's nothing wrong it. When I saw that picture, I knew everyone was going to say something. And I thought, 'You know what? Leave Jessica alone!' She's fabulous, she's a really sweet girl, and I admire her for putting up with it." [People]

• Joaquin Phoenix's rap career: Not a hoax. Says his publicist. "He intends on exploring his musical interests despite speculative, negative or positive reactions." Sure, sure. [Mirror]
• Patrick Swayze has reportedly given up all medical treatment after doctors told him there was nothing more they could do for him. A source says: "The goal now is to keep Patrick comfortable… He's still losing weight and he's very weak." [Daily Mail]
• A stuntman who doubles for Daniel Radcliffe is paralyzed after suffering a serious injury on the set of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. [Daily Mail]
• Jake Gyllenhaal was "fidgety" at the courthouse in downtown L.A., where he was being considered as a potential juror. That's right: Jake might get jury duty! [E!]
• Michael Lohan is pleading for the public to "PLEASE HELP!!!" his daughter Lindsay: "I am asking everyone out there to intervene in every way possible to help Lindsay, and quite possibly, save her life,” he posted on his blog. "Help this wonderful, good hearted and gifted young lady to see what SaMANtha is doing to her and how she is destroying her life." [MSNBC]
• Meanwhile, Mark Ronson hung out with Lady GaGa in London last night. Ronson wore a black overcoat and skinny jeans; Ms. GaGa wore a rubber bra and skirt. [Daily Mail]
• Scarlett Johansson on her marriage to Ryan Reynolds: "I never had any preconceived notions of marriage or anything like that. I never really thought about it that much. My parents were divorced when I was 13, so I never had an idea of what a marriage should be, would be or could be. I was never in a hurry, I just figured someday I would get married, I guess. I am really in love with love. I’m a lover, not a fighter. I’m a real lov-vah." [Mirror]
• Thank GOB: The Arrested Development movie is on! [Gatecrasher]
• Brad Pitt wears that newsboy cap a lot. [NY Daily News]
• David Beckham loves it when his fellow AC Milan players pat his bottom: "I hadn’t even realised Clarence [Seedorf] had touched my backside but I’ll be happy if he does it again — because it will mean I’ve scored another goal. So he’s formally got my permission to touch it again." [The Sun]
• Miley Cyrus performed for Sasha and Malia Obama and seems blasé: "They were taking pictures like every other fan – they were really cool and appreciative of me being there. I really liked that." Yes, dear, it's all about what you like. [Perez]
• Mickey Rourke will not wrestle WWE superstar Chris Jerico at Wrestlemania, even though he said he would before the SAG awards. Apparently someone told him that acting is not being. [AP]
• Put a fork in Audrina and JustinBobby, because they are DONE: "I keep reading on blogs that I'm cheating on Justin, and we're not even together anymore!" Audrina told Us Weekly. "The last time I saw him was at The Hills finale in New York in December." [Perez]
• American Idol contestant Joanna Pacitti was in the 1996 cast of Annie, had a deal with A&M records, released an album and was on a reality show. So should she be on AI? Producer Ken Warwick says yes: "The question isn't 'have you ever had a deal' it’s 'do you have one now.' If the answer is no, then you can compete. If you were already a professional, you wouldn’t be auditioning, after all." [MSNBC]
• By the by: Paula Abdul stormed off the set of American Idol, saying: "Okay, I guess my opinion doesn't matter." A teenage contestant encouraged her to go back inside. [The Star]
• The fifth Twilight book was leaked online, and author Stephenie Meyer is "too sad about what happened" to continue writing the story. Shimmery vampire fans, insert your own "that bites" pun here. [Gatecrasher]
• Kelly Osbourne went back to rehab because her London lifestyle is "very bad for her," a source says. "It's a very party atmosphere there." Hmm, in rehab they will probably teach you not to blame the city! [People]
• Are Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane reconciling? They filed for divorce last month, but are hosting a party together next week. Work it out! [E!]
• U2 had so much fun recording their album at Olympic Studios that they're thinking about buying the facility. [The Sun]
• Blind item! "Which cheesy reality star goes on $30K shopping sprees and returns all items the next day when she realizes she can’t actually afford them?" [Gatecrasher]
• Picture this: Liam Neeson as Abraham Lincoln, in a film project by Steven Spielberg. Epic, no? [Mirror]
• Kylie Minogue was at the Jean Paul Gaultier show in Pairs yesterday, talking about how she's going to jet to India do a musical number in a Bollywood film. [WWD]
• Does Kate Hudson look a wee sloppy on the cover of InStyle UK? [The Life Files]
• Ellen Barkin will star and executive produce an untitled HBO drama, her first TV series. Barkin's character is a woman "famous for her high-profile marriage who divorces and re-enters the singles market and finds herself developing a close, platonic bond with the 24-year-old son of her ex-husband." Please don't let it be called Cougar. [Variety]
• Joan Rivers has two new books: one is a plastic surgery tell-all called Men Are Stupid… And They Like Big Boobs and the other is a murder mystery titled Murder At the Academy Awards. What do they have in common? Rivers says "101%" of the people who walk the red carpets of Hollywood have had work done. [USA Today]
• John Cleese is no longer returning text messages from his 27-yet-45 year old girlfriend Barbie Orr. It's over! [Daily Mail]
• What the world needs now: A Marie Osmond talk show. [Mediaweek]
• Julian Lennon and Sean Lennon, whose families feuded in the past, will perform together in public at a United Nations event. Come together, right now… [Fox 411]
• Everyone in the small Swiss town of Kallnach knows Marilyn Manson, absinthe connoisseur, because they manufacture his "Mansinthe" there. [IHT]
• Random people on the street have been yelling at this Prince Harry lookalike ever since Prince Harry's breakup, making the lookalike's life a living hell. Gingers never get a break. [The Sun]
• The lookalike is in hiding, btw. [Telegraph]
• If you are interested in T.I.'s pubes, by all means, click the link at the end of this sentence. [The Life Files]
• "Now guys are really nice when they’re breaking up with me because they don’t want to end up on a song." — Lily Allen. [The Sun]
• "We always thought we were doing something different, first of all, in having a show about a girl, because that wasn't happening at the time. You were usually the bimbo or the nerd, those were your main choices in the early '90s. So what we tried to do was create a show about a girl who was neither, and who was both. She was popular at school, and she was hip, but she was also bright, and she had other interests. We tried to create an experience that was common to a lot of girls, which is that you're both of those things at once, and that was huge for a lot of people. And we weren't doing Shakespeare, but we were absolutely dealing with issues that other shows were not." — Mayim Bialik on Blossom, which is finally being released on DVD. [Onion AV Club]
• "The only reason I have lost weight is because I comfort eat when I'm not very happy. The last two years, even though I had a lot of success with my first record, I was … getting so drunk. I was on tour with people I didn't know, and I was all around the world working really hard and was really confused and lonely." — Lily Allen, to The Sun. [People]
• I don’t feel sexy, not right now. I think there is kind of an ingenue thing that women play when they are in their 20s. They are sort of these whimsical, sort of transient characters, and it’s like that in life. Women in their 30s, and actors in their 30s, suddenly take on far meatier roles. They are playing mothers and wives and women who have been through a life – before the place that they are at that moment. And I look forward to that time when I’ll be able to have more of a life that I have experienced to put into the roles." — Scarlett Johansson. [Mirror]
• "My industry is magazine publishing. Pornography? That isn't my industry. If you call sexual images pornography, then they are negative. If you call those same images erotic, they are positive. I'm not an active feminist. I'm an active humanist. I separated ways from feminism when it became antisexual. I believe embracing sexuality is part of what it means to be free." — Hugh Hefner. [Time]
• "It seems to the outside world that I've always had a job but I have not. Every four months when a film finishes there's a big chasm all the time and you're trying to figure out what will come next. Sometimes there are interesting projects that come around that I put a lot of energy into and sometimes I don't. My mother would always say to me 'How can you live like this? How can you not know next year what you're doing?' I think that's part of what makes actors able to destabilize themselves to a point where they can take on another persona because they always imploding." — Meryl Streep. [Mirror]

Well, America, we're about to find out, thanks to that "never gonna go away, no matter how hard you wish for it" brother-sister team, Donny and Marie Osmond, and their new show, Rediscovered, which takes the casting tapes of 5 wannabe child stars that were sent to MMC casting director, Matt Casella, in the 90's, and gives the stars of those tapes, now adults, a second shot at the stardom they never attained.

The show, which airs Tuesday night, " is about making childhood dreams come true," exec producer Dave Broome says. "What makes this show so different is that, unlike other competition shows, none of our contestants applied. We tracked them down, surprised them, and plucked them from their daily lives for this once in a lifetime chance."

Apparently, the 5 individuals all agreed to take part, or there wouldn't be much of a show, but isn't there something a little weird about this whole thing? "We didn't think you were good enough as children, but we're ready to use you for ratings now!" isn't really the "once in a lifetime chance" most of us would want, is it? Or perhaps after seeing the success of Justin and Ryan (and to a certain extent, Britney), the contestants have lived in a state of "That could have been me," for 20 or so years, and have been dying for such a thing. Either way, it seems a bit strange, and perhaps even a bit unhealthy, as living in a world of "could've's and almost's" doesn't seem like a happy existence. Or maybe the show is just a goofy way of closing a childhood wound and snagging a $50,000 grand prize, something that most of us would have a hard time turning down at this point, no?

When I was a kid, I wanted nothing more than to be on MMC. I loved that horrible show. I couldn't dance and could barely sing, but I wanted to do the comedy skits and yell my name in the opening credits. I even begged my parents to help me make an audition tape, to which they flatly replied "No way." And after seeing the lives of child stars deteriorate and implode, I think it's safe to say that the fact that my impossible dreams of child stardom were stamped out by my realistic parents was actually a blessing in disguise. (Not to mention the fact that my audition tape, which, I had decided, would have consisted of me singing Vanessa Williams' "Save the Best For Last" through my coke bottle lenses and hardcore brace face would have ended up in the trash very quickly.)

But for some people, I suppose, that dream never died, and this is their chance to relive it. As an added bonus, the show promises audition tapes from the breakout stars of MMC, including this clip from Miss American Dream herself:

Though the point of the show is to drum up sympathy for those who lost their "childhood dreams" by missing out on MMC, all I can think when I see a 9-year old Britney Spears is this: Don't you wonder how her life would have turned out if the casting director had turned her down?

Rediscovered[ABC]

[New York, February 18. Image via Splash.]

• Did Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham have her implants removed??? [The Sun]
  
• The new issue of Star alleges that Britney Spears has an X-rated "fantasy room" with tons of sex toys, a mirrored ceiling, and a closet full of "kinky" ensembles — including a schoolgirl outfit, a maid uniform and a Cinderella dress. More on that in Midweek Madness! [Rush & Molloy]
  
• Mere days after being hired, Britney's chauffeur quit. He says driving for Brit is a "liability." Well, obvs! But seriously: Won't someone please help? [TMZ]
  
• Lindsay Lohan will start recording her third album soon, reportedly titled Nobody's Angel. Is it because she's contractually obligated? Or because she has so much free time on her hands, what with no movies to film? [Page Six]

• Also, the new sober Lindsay has been "drinking a little bit," but not doing drugs, according to a source. "As long as she isn't doing drugs, she's okay." Relapse, anyone? [Gatecrasher]
• Heath Ledger's still on the prowl; recently he's been seen flirting with Heather Graham and model Gemma Ward. Ladies! Just say no. [Page Six]
• Kimora Lee Simmons was overheard telling a friend she invited her husband's girlfriend to his birthday party to meet "major players" because she wants the "stupid bitch to get a clue." Catfight! [Page Six]
• The Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo romance was made possible by Jessica's father, Joe, who never ceases to be creepy. [Page Six]
• "I'm quite an opinionated tough girl," singer Lily Allen says. "But then the minute I get into bed with somebody I turn into a little girl who needs cuddling and looking after. I'm really nauseating, basically." Aw, we think that's kinda normal! Don't beat yourself up, Lil! [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which young actress and aspiring singer is just stringing along that hip-hop star, hoping he'll write some hits for her?" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Paris Hilton was seen with pizzaboy/model Alex Vaggo for the first time since September.The pair went to the movies. [TMZ]
• Usher and his wife Tameka had a baby boy on Monday night: Usher Raymond V was born in Atlanta. [People]
• Angelina Jolie was nominated for an Independent Spirit award for her work in A Mighty Heart. Anyone ever see that? [ET]
• Marie Osmond wants a Mormon in the White House, aka Mitt Romney. [MSNBC]
• Pete Doherty has taken to meditating to cope with the stress of being on the road. Hey, it's healthier than heroin! [Mirror]

• Lindsay Lohan and her family celebrated Thanksgiving with a day of group therapy! Meanwhile, her beau Riley Giles met the fam, then spent his nights partying without LL. Bad boyfriend! [Page Six]
  
• Oh, and Riley posted a bulletin on MySpace: "Theres some rumors circulating of a breakup... These "sources" are just bored, unemployed bloggers... Ny was a blAAst... I wished we could have stayed longer, minus me being forced to smile @ wOprah. what a whackjob!" OMG even he thinks Dina "White Oprah" Lohan is crazy! [ONTD]
  
• Britney Spears will get custody of her kids on Christmas Day, since KFed got 'em on Thanksgiving. Makes sense since Mama's got the dough for presents. [TMZ]

• Meanwhile, Brit's attorney is trying to get the custody case sealed, so details don't leak out, for the sake of the kids. The poor, poor kids. [USA Today]
• And? Details magazine has Kevin Federline on the cover, calling him a "good father" and one of the "50 most influential men under 45." What a world we live in. [MSNBC]
• Hulk Hogan is said to be "devastated" his wife Linda filed for divorce — is it all about the Benjamins? A source says she loves to spend. [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which paranoid billionaire always travels with heavy security and doesn't like any employees with him on the elevator - but also doesn't want to be seen as racist, so black staffers are allowed to share the lift?" [Page Six]
• Madonna and Guy Ritchie will host a preview of his film Revolver, which has not been released in the States but bombed abroad due to its "pretentious style and fractured storytelling." Hey, at least Madge isn't in it. [Gatecrasher]
• Did Heath Ledger spend Thanksgiving hitting on pretty brunettes? And did any of them give him the time of day? [Gatecrasher]
• Blind item! "Which singing heartthrob currently tied to an actress is really single and living out his sex fetish dreams with different girls all over the country?" [Gatecrasher]
• Blind item! "Which A-list pop star snaps her fingers angrily when clubgoers spill drinks on her, causing her burly bodyguard to immediately run for napkins? She doesn't even bother to thank him when he hands them to her." [Rush & Molloy]
• Foxy Brown is out of prison on good behavior! [TMZ]
• George Clooney and Don Cheadle are being honored by Nobel laureates for their efforts to bring peace to Darfur. [People]
• Kate Moss and boyfriend Jamie "Hotel" Hince had a fight... over Pete Doherty. Kate apparently misses being on stage with Pete, and was considering joining him at a gig; Jamie was all "Nuh-uh." [Mirror]
• Lily Allen reveals one of the reasons she dropped 20 lbs: Doctors discovered she had a heart murmur. [Mirror]
• Despite fainting, divorce and critics who say she can't dance, Marie Osmond is the popular choice on Dancing With The Stars, sigh. [ABC News]

• Brad Pitt is not comfortable with Angelina Jolie's love scenes with co-star James McAvoy in her upcoming movie, Wanted — he's actually downright jealous, says a source. [MSNBC]
  
• By the way, Brad and Angelina did not buy a man-made island in the shape of Ethiopia off the coast of Dubai, despite what you may have heard. [TMZ]
  
• Britney Spears ran over another paparazzo's foot on Wednesday in the driveway of the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills. To her credit, the photog was on private property and failed to heed the repeated warnings of the security guards. And honestly, when you witness the mayhem, you wonder why she doesn't run over everyone. [Pop Dirt]

• Alicia Keys skipped the party for her new CD because "there was no security and the crowd was rough," says her manager. Or possibly because she wasn't getting paid, says a source. Do artists get paid to attend their own record release parties? No wonder the music industry is in the crapper. [Page Six]
• Clint Eastwood, David Duchovny, Bruce Willis and Jerry Hall lost their virginity at 14, according to a new book, Where Do Nudists Keep Their Hankies. Johnny Depp, James Caan and Jon Bon Jovi were 13, Don Johnson was 12 and Sean Connery was 8, but "can't recall" to whom he lost it! We're trying to picture an 8-year-old Sean, but somehow still see the beard. [Page Six]
• After their shoving match at L.A. restaurant Madeo last week, Fabio has been bragging about how he "schooled" George Clooney. Three words, Fabio: Get a haircut. [Page Six]
• Keith Urban was seen leaving a New York tanning salon. Does he want to get darker to make his highlights stand out? It's incomprehensible. [Page Six]
• Marie Osmond's 16-year-old son, Michael, went to rehab last week — right about the same time that Marie's father died in Utah. [TMZ]
• Fereidoun "Fred" Khalilian, who partnered with Paris Hilton to open Club Paris in Orlando, turned himself in yesterday after being accused of raping a woman at his Florida condo. Yuck. [TMZ]
• Perhaps we could not agree that Tyra Banks had a nose job, but Paula Abdul? Seems like a sure thing. [TMZ]
• Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo married record producer Chris Ivery last Friday at New York's City Hall — with Mayor Michael Bloomberg as a witness. When she said she wasn't going to have a big wedding, she meant it! [ABC News]
• Ellen DeGeneres has canceled plans to tape her show in New York next week — Writers Guild East members had vowed to protest her decision to stay on the air during their strike. [ABC News]
• Jane Seymour won the first round of a court battle with her neighbors over the parties and corporate functions she holds in her mansion near Bath, England. [Guardian]
• Rumer Willis, 19-year-old daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis will be Miss Golden Globes — which means handing out the awards at the ceremony, and probably enduring jokes from friends along the lines of "heh heh, nice globes." [People]
• Heath Ledger "became teary" after a journalist questioned him about his break up with Michelle Williams. "I can relate to struggling with keeping consistency with family life, social life and your professional life," he said. [News.com.au]
• Pete Doherty was seen — you guessed it — doing drugs. A picture of him snorting "five large lines" of cocaine was in a newspaper. Didn't he have some implant that makes it impossible to do drugs? [The Sun]

• Judging by her shopping choices, Christina Aguilera is having a boy. Unless she's trying to trick us! In which case she's having a girl. [The Sun]
  
• Britney's former assistant says the pop star had a shrine to Kevin Federline in her house — her wedding dress and all of his old clothes. Um, won't someone please help? [The Sun]
  
• Also, Britney has been ordered to pay Kevin Federline's $120,000 legal bill from the custody battle, since "the vast majority of the litigation deals with [Britney's] conduct." Ouch! [People]
  
• Oh, and Britney's album was denied the #1 spot on the Billboard charts after an unexpected last-minute rule change. The #1 CD is The Eagles' Long Road Out Of Eden. We're beginning to think Britney has karmic debt. [MTV]

• Lynne Spears blames herself for Britney's trainwreck: "I didn't raise my children to have Hollywood careers. This all just exploded in my face, and big dreams became big headaches." [Rush & Molloy, 4th from bottom]
• A respected Detroit reverend says that Star Jones is the victim in the kerfluffle with a local charity's "empowering" event. Rev. Horace Sherffield says his own nonprofit organization was also duped by the shady group, Full & Fabulous. They offered to pay Star Jones $25,000 to come and speak — but never sent the $10,000 deposit as required in the contract. [Page Six]
• Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams are planning to create two identical bedrooms for daughter Matilda, so that whether she wakes up at mommy's or daddy's house it'll look familiar. Uh, sounds disorienting. [Page Six]
• Is Mandy Moore dating Matthew Perry? Cuz that's kinda weird. [Page Six]
• Did Lost's Evangeline Lilly and Dominic Monaghan break up? It was kinda weird that they were together. [Page Six]
• Oooh! George Clooney was dining at an L.A. restaurant and "romance model" Fabio was at the next table. Fabio's friends started snapping pictures of each other, and Clooney got pissed. They argued! They shoved each other! Waiters had to break it up! Fabio's manager says, "George is lucky he didn't end up in the ER." Ba bum bum! [Page Six]
• The Office stars John Krasinski and Rashida Jones were seen "canoodling" at the SNL after-party last week. They dated in 2005 — maybe there's a rekindling? [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]
• Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch is in foreclosure! Jackson is delinquent $23,212,963 on a $23,000,000 loan. [TMZ]
• David Copperfield claims he is the victim of a smear campaign and an extortion attempt by a former employee. Does this mean we can't make "grabracadabra" jokes anymore? [TMZ]
• Victor Garber, who played Jennifer Garner's character's father on Alias, says little Violet Affleck is an "extraordinary kid" who is not even two, yet "her vocabulary is daunting." Awww. [People]
• Donny & Marie Osmond's father, George, died Tuesday. Entertainment Tonight was on the plane with them as they flew to Utah to grieve. Classy! [ET]
• Welsh actor Rhys Ifans has asked Sienna Miller to marry him. In song. In Welsh! Her response? "She fell about laughing," says a source. [Mirror]
• Amy Winehouse has finally been granted a U.S. work visa! She was supposed to be on Saturday Night Live but now there's a writers strike, of course. [Mirror]
• Pete Doherty has apologized for injecting heroin on video last week. "It was a stupid, stupid action for which iI feel only shame," he says. [The Sun]

Earlier: Marie Osmond Faints On 'Dancing With The Stars' [Defamer]

• Halle Berry was showing distorted pictures of herself during a taping of The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and said "Here's where I look like my Jewish cousin!" when displaying one in which her nose looked large. Although the segment aired, NBC dropped the audio of her saying "Jewish." Berry says "I so didn't mean to offend anybody." Halle knows about nose regrets. [Page Six]
  
• Jennifer Lopez racked up $16,000 in limousine charges while promoting her film El Cantante in July... and then disputed the bill, so it went unpaid. [Page Six]
  
• Leonardo DiCaprio is single again, having split with Israeli model Bar Refaeli. But what's weird is that Refaeli is now dating Kelly Slater, who dated Gisele Bundchen after DiCaprio did. WTF. [Page Six]
  
• Ryan Gosling was supposedly dropped by director Peter Jackson on the film The Lovely Bones because he cut his own hair and fought with wardrobe. We say give Ryan what he wants! [Page Six]

• The Hills star Heidi Montag shot her music video last week — with Spencer Pratt as the camera man. Classy! [TMZ]
• Amy Winehouse's live DVD comes available with a Double Trouble combo — an engraved pint glass and ashtray. Beehive not included, boo. [TMZ]
• Owen Wilson participated in a lawn-mower race for a Willie Nelson video shoot! He raced against brothers Luke and Andrew, as well as Jessica Simpson, Woody Harrelson and Dan Rather. We wanna see! [People]
• Melanie "Sporty Spice" Chisholm was reluctant to do the Spice Girls reunion because she suffered from depression and an eating disorder during her years with the group. "They basically said if I wanted to do it, great, but if I didn't want to do it then they were going to do it anyway," she says. Aw, sisterhood. [Telegraph]
• Kate Moss is selling the London mansion where she spent time with ex Pete Doherty... Too many memories? [Mirror]
• David Copperfield has canceled upcoming shows in Southeast Asia — but not because of his allegations of sexual misconduct, his lawyer says. The charges that Copperfield "forced himself" on an unidentified woman are false, his lawyer claims, "because David Copperfield has never forced himself on anyone." (Aside: This subject came up and Moe said, "If he is magic, can't he make 'No' 'Yes'?") [Showbuzz]
• Oprah flew to South Africa over the weekend to deal with the crisis of allegations of sexual misconduct at her school for girls. It was her second visit in ten days. [Times Of London]
• Mariah Carey's makeup artist waxed the singer's upper lip and chin — in front a studio audience at the CBS studios. Yes, there are pictures! [Daily Mail]
• Blind item! "Which major league athlete has been trying to sleep with all his former fiancee's celebrity friends since he broke up with the B-lister? But even Paris Hilton turned him down!" [Gatecrasher, last item]
• Jay-Z says that when he watched his retirement movie, Fade To Black recently, he was "embarrasssed. I couldn't watch. I had to turn it off. I was cringing." [Rush & Molloy, 2nd item]