• Hugh Jackman called Ricky Gervais to "brainstorm jokes" for the Oscars. Will Jackman bring the funny as well as the song and dance? [EW]

• This column says that since the parties and swag suites are super scaled back or canceled, this year's Oscars may actually be — gasp — about the awards. [MSNBC Scoop]
• Ooh — renderings of the Oscars stage! There's a bandstand and glittery lights and chandeliers. The architect set out to "craft an immersive environment evocative of an intimate club." [AP]
• Ha! The Academy would like to get rid of the red carpet so that people will actually watch the award ceremony. We want to see the purty dresses, mmkay? [NY Post]
• Heath Ledger's family has arrived in Los Angeles to accept the Oscar for Heath, should he win. [NY Post]
• Twilight's Robert Pattinson is presenting at the Oscars. No real explanation why. [E!]
• Police are investigating who leaked the photograph of Rihanna's battered face: "The Los Angeles Police Department takes seriously its duty to maintain the confidentiality of victims of domestic violence," the LAPD said in a statement Thursday. The department has yet to publicly identify Rihanna as the alleged victim in Brown's case. The picture was taken when cops arrived on the scene in Hancock Park, but apparently there were more pictures taken at the hospital, where, a source says, "the swelling is even worse." [E!, CNN]
• Anthony Geisler, president of LA Boxing, has created a Facebook group called "I Want To Fight Chris Brown." [Fox News]
• Heidi Klum tried pole dancing, but just for Germany's Next Top Model. Quoth Heidi: "It was hard!" [Gatecrasher]
• If you want Gerard Butler to be amused by you, get your chest tattooed with scenes and characters from 300. [Page Six]
• Did Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia break up over a pregnancy scare? [Chicago Sun Times, Yahoo News via E!]
• Some of Madonna's most famous ensembles are on display in London starting tomorrow: See the "Open Your Heart" bustier, the "Like A Virgin" wedding gown and the baseball uniform she wore in A League Of Their Own. Plus! You can bid on the pink strapless number from the "Material Girl" video. [People StyleWatch]
• Kate Winslet has sisters named Beth and Anna. They are actresses as well, though as this paper so helpfully points out, they "toil in obscurity." Beth looks the most like Kate, no? [Daily Mail]
• Whoa: Linda Hamilton might play Sarah Connor again — in Terminator Salvation! Oh wait, just a voiceover? [ONTD]
• Field trip alert: Hollis Famous Burgers in Hollis, Queens, New York, offers mini-burgers for $1 and a viewing of the Hollis Hip Hop Museum. DMC from Run-DMC donated memorabilia. [IHT]
• Kanye West's new ladyfriend is a model named Amber Rose. Why yes, she was nude in Smooth magazine, why do you ask? [Gatecrasher]
• Do what you must to prepare: Frances Bean Cobain is moving to the UK with mom Courtney Love. Will she join London's "brat pack" and party with Pixie Geldof? [Daily Mail]
• Freida Pinto's engagement photos have hit the web. She allegedly broke up with her fiancé when Slumdog Millionaire turned into a success. Is it so terrible for her to end a relationship because her life changed? [ONTD]
• Slumdog's Freida Pinto and Dev Patel are dating in real life, confirms costar Anil Kapoor: "I think this is the beginning of something exciting. They definitely make a great pair and look very good together." [Daily Mail, Mirror, Independent]
• Speaking of Slumdog, all nine actors who play the three main characters in three stages of their lives will attend the Oscars. Kids on the red carpet! Rubina Ali, 9, says: "I'm not scared. I'm going to go and take a lot of pictures and show them to people over here [in India]." [AP]
• "Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors, and I got an original of The Cannery, signed, from my boyfriend," Mischa Barton "trilled" to New York magazine. The mag points out: "Presumably, she was referring to Steinbeck's classic, Cannery Row." [NY Mag]
• The actor who played a steroid dealer in The Wrestler was busted for selling steroids. [AP]
• Usher's wife was spotted at the airport, leaving Brazil, so she must be doing better after complications from lipo. [Concrete Loop]
• Jenna Elfman has been cast in the lead of the CBS comedy show Accidentally On Purpose. She'll play a movie cirtic who gets pregnant after a one-night stand and decides to raise the child with its much-younger father. Are there any plots for women which don't involve the uterus? [Variety]
• Wait! Here's one: Cybill Shepherd will star in a flick called Mrs. Washington Goes To Smith, in which a woman in her 40s returns to Smith College to finish her degree. Oh, but: It's on the Hallmark Channel? [Variety]
• A couple accused of kidnapping and killing a young girl for ransom got the idea for the crime from the Clint Eastwood movie Dirty Harry. [Daily Mail]
• Blind item! Which TV personality is "too white" for a Spanish-based program? He tested well, but execs were worried because he doesn't really speak the language. [Gatecrasher]
• "I live in Hollywood, I work for E! Have I ever lied on the red carpet - erm, yes, I have! Sometimes I find myself saying: 'That looks...' and sometimes 'great' comes out before I can process I've said it, or 'fantastic.' And then I watch it back - and it does look different on television - and think that was not a 'great', that was a 'less than great'." —Ryan Seacrest. [The Star]
• "I wanted to be a movie star. I had a difficult set of circumstances to deal with, particularly for a movie career. Being gay, really. It just doesn't work. As actors we don't play gay, straight... we play human beings." — Rupert Everett, who is convinced his sexuality killed his career. [Daily Express]
• "People we worked with in the slums said, 'You're not going to show us as being poor, are you? Because that's what Westerners always do.' I tried to make the film with a kind of energy that reflects what the place is like, that it has a vitality despite its poverty" — Danny Boyle, on Slumdog Millionaire. [Time]
• "There is a fantastic scene in Trainspotting where a character disappears down the toilet. And when we came to do this scene [in Slumdog], I remember thinking, We can't do that—it's exactly the same as Trainspotting! But it's such an extraordinary scene because all his character is right in that moment. Obviously, it's a big audience favorite." — Danny Boyle, on his penchant for graphic toilet scenes. [Time]
• "I come from a long line of real cart horses. Very stoic, insides-made-of-iron people. So I can take any shit you can fling at me. I can cope with any workload. I can deal with lack of sleep. I can multitask like you've no idea. But two weeks ago, I actually had a panic attack. My first one. I didn't know what it was! It was a little like when your water [breaks], and you think, Did I just pee a bit, or is this it? I called my sister and said, 'I can't breathe, and I feel like I've got a brick on my chest and I'm seeing funny, and it sounds like everyone's talking to me in Hebrew.' She said, 'Yeah, that's a panic attack.'" — Kate Winslet, 10 days before the Oscars. [Time]
• "It is not like your taste suddenly changes because you're a mother, but I would love to do a movie that would impress my kids. Most of all I would love to do a voice in an animated movie, but people don't come to me for that. They don't think of me, and break into fits of giggles." — Naomi Watts. [Independent]
• "There's no standup comic hosting it. Hugh [Jackman] is going to come out and say a few things, but he's not going to do a 10-minute monologue... He's going to be doing a lot of musical stuff, so that will have a different feel to it. The show's got a narrative line this year, so all the awards are grouped around that. The sequence in which they're given is dictated by this narrative. There are different people doing groups of awards instead of a different set for each one, so all that stuff kind of makes it different. But, you know, it's still the Academy Awards, and there are 24 of them to give out." — Bruce Vilanch, on his 20th gig writing for the Oscars. [AP]
• "You can't expect to win something like this. [The Academy] could just as easily turn left, as it could go right. You can't take anything for granted." — Kim Ledger, Heath's dad, who says if if his son does win, Kim "may say a few words." [Mirror]
• "I wouldn't raise [Matilda] [in LA]. For all the obvious reasons – being the daughter of… Being an actor's daughter. It's a town that's about one thing and I want her to have options." — Michelle Williams. [Telegraph]

• Sad face: Mickey Rourke's 18-year-old chihuahua, Loki, has died. Rourke called Loki "the love of his life." And famously thanked his all his dogs in his Golden Globes speech. RIP little dude! [E!, TMZ]

• Sarah Jessica Parker's been talking about the Sex And The City sequel. She wants the new movie to be a "massive romp." And she's worried about the consumerism: "How do we address these economic times in a franchise that has a lot to do with luxury and labels? You know, there is a lot that we have to think about because times are very different." Indeed. [UPI]
• Lindsay Lohan was seen having a fabulous time in New York while Sam Ronson was in San Diego, what does it mean??!?! [Page Six]
• The lone Asian dude in Miley Cyrus's "goofy" photo has been identified; his name is Chuck Willis, and he is a model/actor/photographer. Who hangs out with Hannah Montana. [ONTD]
• The Guardian's Hadley Freeman spends five minutes with "the surprisingly tall" Justin Timberlake and promptly falls "a little bit in love." [Guardian]
• Oscar producers want M.I.A. to be on the show so badly — even though she just gave birth — that they're willing to let her perform her track from Slumdog Millionaire from a "large bed" on stage. Or she could appear via hologram. The bed idea sounds kind of awesome, but only if there are dancing orderlies. [NY Mag, MSNBC Scoop]
• More Oscar gossip: Hugh Jackman is hosting, but he'll be joined on stage by Beyoncé, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens and Mamma Mia's Amanda Seyfried for a big song and dance number, directed by Moulin Rouge's Baz Luhrmann. If they do "Dancing Queen," it just might be the gayest thing on TV since Charles Nelson Riley. [Yahoo News via E!]
• John Mayer will be attending the Oscars, and says: "It's my first Oscars. And it's my first being an Oscar boyfriend. After that night I have a deal almost signed in blood that says I must go into the studio and finish this record. So after Oscar Sunday, Monday morning I'm invisible." [PopSugar]
• Bookies who deal with Oscar bets says Heath Ledger is "such an absolute certainty you've got to feel a bit sorry for the fellow nominees. They have no absolutely no chance whatsoever of winning." [Mirror]
• An L.A. Superior Court judge has ruled that Roman Polanski will have to come to the U.S. and face a judge before his 1977 child sex case can be dismissed. Of course, if Polanski arrives in the States, he faces immediate arrest, as he is a fugitive. [Variety]
• Hayden Panettiere, 19, fresh off of her breakup from Milo Ventimiglia, 31, was seen flirting with Gerard Butler, 39. Can you blame her? He's hot! [MSNBC Scoop]
• Seth Rogen will appear on the cover of Playboy, only the 9th time a dude's been on the cover in 56 years. But will he be clothed? [Page Six]
• Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen are engaged, by the by. [Page Six]
• Kanye West looks morose on the new cover of Details and inside says the kind of stuff you expect Kanyeezy to say. Like: "Put this in the magazine: There's nothing more to be said about music. I'm the fucking end-all, be-all of music." And! "People ask me a lot about my drive," he says. "I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex-to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 a.m., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic..." [Yahoo News via E!]
• Also, when Kanye was 12, he produced a video game: "My game was very sexual. The main character was, like, a giant penis. It was like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas. Mind you, I'm 12 years old, and this is stuff 30-year-olds are programming. You'd have to draw in and program every little step-it literally took me all night to do a step, 'cause the penis, y'know, had little feet and eyes." [Yahoo News via E!]
• Michael Phelps is so afraid of people snapping his picture, he's had the windows of his home tinted and he's been hiding out in strip clubs, where photographs are not allowed. No, really, that's the only reason. [Page Six]
• Has Kylie Minogue had cosmetic surgery? The latest edition of the UK's Grazia magazine asks on its cover: "What has Kylie done to her face?" A surgeon who does not treat her has the answer: "Kylie's brows look a little higher than usual, which suggests she's having regular Botox to lift them. One of Kylie's brows is slightly more arched and higher than the other, which is often a telltale sign." [News.com.au]
• Boo-hoo: Eva Longoria Parker is sad that Nicolette Sheridan is leaving Desperate Housewives. "I love her so much as a person, and I love the character of Edie Britt, that I can't imagine the show without her," Eva says. [Mirror]
• Here's a video of Benicio Del Toro talking about playing Che Guevara and doing some really good stuff with his expressive eyebrows. [Guardian]
• Kid Rock is making Kid Rock Beer, which is expected to create 394 new jobs in Michigan. Those without jobs will at least have something to drink? [Detroit Free Press]
• Ashton Kutcher is in negotiations to star in a flick called Traded, about a superstar NFL quarterback and a 12-year-old middle school geek who magically trade bodies. Sort of Freaky Friday Night Lights. [Variety]
• Bob Barker "relaxes in retirement with dog and bottle of tequila." He doesn't watch Price Is Right. [ABC News]
• Set your DVR; A&E has ordered 11 episodes of Hammertime, a show which tracks the life of MC Hammer and his family. Can't touch this? [Variety]
• Luther Campbell from 2 Live Crew was arrested for contempt of court last night; he owes $10,233.36 and he'd better pay up. [TMZ]
• Morrissey, who turns 50 in May, says of the chance that he'll still be in the music biz at age 55: "I think it's incredibly slim. For heaven's sake!" [Daily Express]
• Blind items! 1. Which movie producer is finding out bad habits die hard? Despite being married, he asked a gorgeous, dark-haired woman back to his hotel for a "late-night private audition" after a dinner at the Berlin Film Festival. As the actress accepted, look for her to appear in his upcoming pictures. 2. Which kooky fashion figure asked for illegal substances on her contract rider? She said in order for her to appear at a fashion show, she needs two bottles of Cristal and "cocaine - a lot of it." [Page Six]
• Blind item: "Which F-list celeb had an abortion six months ago? We hear she's still not sure who the father was." Wait, why do we care about this? [Gatecrasher]
• "God, I might pass out. Your heart pounds really hard, and just that moment…wow. My grandmother is coming. My mom and my grandmother. Three generations. " — Taraji P. Henson, on being a nominee at the Oscars. [Washington Post]
• "My mother, she was like, 'I don't know if Mama wants to come because she had a knee replacement surgery and she's been going to the doctor and it's a long evening.' I said: 'Mom, you know what? Why don't we just let Grandma make the decision? Let's call her and let her say no.' We called her on a three-way and I said, 'Hey, Grandma, we got an extra ticket for the Oscars, you wanna come?' 'I sure do, baby!' She did not hesitate, do you understand? Grandma is not going to miss it for the world, do you hear me? She didn't want to hear about how long it was going to be. She didn't want to hear about that, she'd moved on to what she was going to wear. She was like, 'Well, I have this outfit and these shoes.' I was like, 'Bring it, Grandma.'" — Taraji P. Henson. [WaPo]
• "It's just something for your eyes to look at. It's just a change from the norm, innit? The problem is, I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually. You know, a lot of museums keep the stuff, they rotate it, because people get sick of looking at it. They shift the art around, don't they? People go, 'I'm sick of that now.' They move it around the world, let someone else's eyes look at it." — Ricky Gervais, on art. [Guardian]
• "I really believe I'm on the very tail end of television as a big money-making business. I think there will always be a certain number of people who make a lot of money, like American Idol or NFL football, but I just think that in 10 years when people have good Internet connections, there are going to be a thousand channels. People will be making money, they just won't be making a lot of money. Even successful shows or programming will bring in small amounts of money." — Jimmy Kimmel. [Broadcasting & Cable]
• "Oh my God, I'm one of the greatest rappers in the world. I'll get on a track and completely ee-nihilate that track, I'll eat it and rip it in half. I wouldn't have to think of it. […] I have, like, nuclear power, like a superhero, like Cyclops when he puts his glasses on." — Kanye West. [Yahoo News via E!]
• "The next chapter of your life has begun. The toughest decisions you will ever have to make lie in front of you. You have shifted the cultural paradigm of America, but now you have to live up to the ideal that fostered the shift and ensure that the paradigm doesn't shift back. You must deliver." — LL Cool J, in an (open, unsolicited) letter to Barack Obama. [Mirror]
• "I am her biggest fan and I can't get enough of her. But wearing my fashion hat, I want to say to Meryl Streep, 'You need to accept responsibility for what you are wearing. I don't know that you do.' The message she's sending is, 'I'm too smart for this and it doesn't matter to me what I'm wearing.' I want to say to her that it should matter to you." — Tim Gunn. [MSNBC Scoop]

• Suck on this: Madonna will be involved in New Moon, the Twilight sequel. Her Madgesty will not only be in the film, but supply music for the soundtrack. Brain exploding, brb. [ONTD via E!]

• Hayden Panettiere, 19, and Milo Ventimiglia, 31, are over. Done. Apparently "Hayden tried to break up with Milo many times since Christmas, but he wouldn't accept it." She wants to be free; he wants to settle down. [Star]
• Lily Allen and Perez Hilton are in a "Twitter catfight." He wrote: "If I wanted to be a fucked-up Brit, I'd rather be Amy Winehouse – whose[sic] got talent." She fired back: "God, you're like so obsessed with me its embarrassing." He sniped about her album being discounted; she called him a little parasite. Isn't the internet fun? [Telegraph]
• A charity set up by Prince Harry is accused of promising £30,000 to the children of poverty-stricken Lesotho, only to have the money fail to materialize. [Telegraph]
• Prince Harry also flew a training aircraft yesterday, despite failing his exams last week. [Daily Mail]
• David Beckham "finally got" wife Victoria to agree to move to Milan. Ciao, off you go! [The Sun]
• Chris Brown has hired Paris Hilton's spin doctor, Mike Sitrick. But Fox News's Roger Friedman says Sitrick is "universally disliked by the press" and that Chris is "clueless." [Fox 411]
• Julia Roberts looks beachy keen on the March cover of Allure and says she'd like to have dinner with the Obamas. "The girls can play with my kids." She also says: "I think it should be against the law to take a picture of a celebrity's child." [MSNBC Scoop]
• More from Julia in Allure, talking about her kids: "I will never be bored again… [I have] little time theives running around [the] house." And her life: "I'm the luckiest girl in town, I really am." Yawn! [People]
• Halle Berry will star in a flick called Who Is Doris Payne, about an international jewel thief whose career spanned five decades. Rejoice: Neither a hooker, a victim nor a doormat! [Variety]
• Drew Barrymore has a crush on Christian Bale. Back of the line, dear. [Mirror]
• Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto wants a meaty, "ugly" role: "I don't want to be known as just a pretty face. I loved Charlize Theron in Monster. I want to play parts that are challenging and inspiring." Good luck! [Mirror]
• Peaches Geldof made the paper for wearing fishnet thigh-highs with garters. Slow news day? [The Sun]
• Wowza, check out Emily Blunt in this tribute to Blue Velvet. Lynchy! [BlackBook]
• Anne Hathaway, Anne Archer, Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Camryn Manheim, Jessica Alba, Maria Bello, Rosario Dawson and others were on hand for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against women, hosted by feminist playwright Eve Ensler and Glamour. [WWD]
• Grace Jones arrived so late for the African Fashion Collection bash the other night, the party was already over. [Page Six]
• Becki Newton, Ugly Betty's Amanda, swears the show is not cancelled: "We don't know what's going to be happening with the time slot, but we're well into season three, and we just got picked up for season four. There was panic for no reason." [Gatecrasher]
• Jackie Chan is starring in a new flick so violent that it's not being released in mainland China. Of course, that makes us want to see it. Okay, just saw a trailer and it looks epic. [AP]
• There's ultra-violence in Quentin Tarantino's new film, Inglourious Basterds; Nazis get scalped, hit by bats and machine-gunned down. [Page Six]
• PR queen Kelly Cutrone (seen on The Hills and The City) is friends with Eliot Spitzer's ex-hooker, Ashley Dupre. Cutrone says: "I met Ashley through friends in the music industry, I liked her and decided I would be nice to her. I will continue to be nice to her." [Page Six]
• Steven Van Zandt of The Sopranos and the E street band has a radio show, Little Steven's Underground Garage. [Guardian]
• Amy Fisher is a stripper now. "I am going to take this road until my fans tell me, 'Dear, please put your clothes back on. You're too old.'" [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which crazy comic tells everyone about his, ummm, taste for booty whenever he's trashed? Talk about TMI!" [Gatecrasher]
• "A lot of people are scared of him, not just because of his position, but because of his temper. I don't think he ever had the time for 'la dolce vita.' I showed him how." —Carla Bruni on husband Nicolas Sarkozy. [Daily Mail]
• "Do I look like I care? I really don't think about [Joop or what he said]. What am I supposed to say? It's his opinion. What do you think?" — Heidi Klum, on being called "too heavy" to be a runway model. [Gatecrasher]
• "The character is learning lessons about consumption and debt like the rest of us right now. It feels fairly topical. Obviously the movie was conceived during a different economic period but she learns her lesson. It is a redemption story." — Isla Fisher, defending the timing of her Shopaholic picture. [Mirror]
• "She was the greatest show on earth last year. She was going through her issues in public... It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better." — 50 Cent on Britney Spears, who helped inspire his album Before I Self Destruct. [MSNBC, Mirror]
• "I'm a sentimental person who's trying very hard to be a tough cynical person. This show has been more than a job for me; I met my wife on a remote, and we have two kids. I got my dog through this show. This has been a huge central part of my life. I'm quite good at denial, so I've been keeping it at bay. There's not time to dwell. (But) when we're doing the last show, it'll hit me. I'll probably cry like a baby." — Conan O'Brien on leaving Late Night for Tonight. [USA Today]
• "That was the least of our problems. I was always really proud of her success. I'm not a competitive person, and I have no aspirations to be a giant in this industry. I like making movies, but I never had designs on making $25 million a picture." — Ryan Phillippe, denying that he was ever jealous of wife Reese Witherspoon's success. [Contact Music]
• "I can't say that I'm still pole dancing. It's hard! I understand the hazards of the exotic dancer in a way I never imagined." — Marisa Tomei, on the skills she learned for The Wrestler. [Mirror]
• "I had to run and scream while wearing it! But it helps your posture, and certainly makes your boobs look fantastic. My internal organs now loathe me, however, so it might be good to do something in jeans and T-shirts. After all, I don't want to be typecast as the 'English rose' -that's boring, isn't it?" — Emily Blunt on wearing a corset in Wolf Man. [BlackBook]
• "Chris Brown's lies and excuses make me want to beat the crap out of him... He uses the language of the perpetrator just like every sleazy bastard who ever smacked his wife, kid, mother or girlfriend around uses. You dirty bastard, I hope you go to prison for ten years. IT'S YOUR FAULT, ASSHOLE! As for all the mealy mouthed Hollywood and music scene chicks that can't bring themselves to condemn a misogynistic bully, let me say this: Your time as whores for propaganda is ending, bitches." — Roseanne Barr. [ONTD]
• "I've been at war, without a doubt. I've really experienced the judgment of women in the past year. We say we want to be equal, but men don't sit around bitching at each other. There's no sisterhood." — Sienna Miller. [Mirror]

• Lindsay Lohan has turned down a $700,000 offer to pose topless in Playboy. Since we already saw her nipples in New York magazine, what would be the point? [Page Six]
• Meanwhile, there's a truce in the Lohan fam: Michael is actually saying nice things about Dina! And mom, dad and all the kids will allegedly all be together for the final service for Lindsay's grandfather, who died last week. They'll scatter his ashes in a Long Island harbor. [E!]
• You know how Sarah Palin was on the cover of Us? Apparently the magazine "lost thousands of subscribers in the first 24 hours" following the printing of the issue. [MSNBC]

• Lily Allen's suffering from a major hangover and some regret after drunkly swearing on stage at the GQ Awards. Her Facebook status is "dying inside" and she wrote that she "feels like killing" herself, although that part has since been removed. Free champagne is a blessing and a curse. [Daily Mail]
• Leighton Meester and Blake Lively of Gossip Girl: Guest stars on 30 Rock this fall. Apparently Liz Lemon was a mean girl in high school! [EW]
• Heidi Montag: "I'm waiting for my Barbie Doll. That's what I want next." Spencer Pratt: "We just talked to Mattel yesterday, and we are already working on our own Ken and Barbie." That sound you hear: Thunderous hooves, as the Apocalyptic horsemen approach. [Socialite Life]
• Romeo Beckham is The Dark Knight. [The Sun]
• Balthazar Getty and Matthew Rhys, who play brothers on Brothers & Sisters are not speaking to each other, and it's Sienna Miller's fault. Naturally. [E!]
• Hayden Panettiere, 19, is moving into her own house in West Hollywood. But! Her beau, Milo Ventimiglia, is upset because he thought they were moving in together. Turns out she's wary of Milo, who keeps talking about marriage. A source says: "She's not even old enough to have a drink, so she's not even thinking about settling down." [Star]
• Whoa, there's a feud between Alec Baldwin and Greg Garcia, the exec producer of My Name Is Earl. Alec can't understand why they'd do a one-hour episode of Earl: You've got to be fucking kidding me," he says. Garcia says Alec sounds like a "psychotic narcissist." [Page Six, Defamer]
• This story about Jennifer Aniston is titled: "Did Brangelina Spoil Jennifer For Other Men?" Here is an actual line from the article: "When it comes to men, Jen’s radar seems hopelessly broken, leaving her prey to the serial-shagger charms of men such as [Paul] Sculfor, who is now cosily loved up with Cameron Diaz, and [John] Mayer, who has been involved with a string of other celebs including Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Love Hewitt." [The Sun]
• Amy Winehouse ordered 48 bottles of Jack Daniel's. For a weekend gig. [The Sun]
• Kim Kardashian is helping sister Khloe with Celebrity Apprentice. First assignment: Lunch with Omarosa. Uh-oh! [Page Six]
• Tension in New Kids On The Block? Seems like Donnie won't hang out with the other kids or play their reindeer games. [Page Six]
• Richard Branson says, "The best way to reduce your carbon footprint is not to fly at all. But that's not realistic. You can't walk to England." He has a solution, of course: "Fly Virgin. One hundred percent of all profits from all our airlines are reinvested into finding a cleaner fuel solution. We had an experimental 747 that ran on coconut oil… but it took 150,000 coconuts for one flight. So now we're looking at developing fuel from algae. If you fly Virgin, you'll support this cause." [Rush & Molloy]
• Rachel Weisz was voted Hollywood's hottest babe — in a poll of 4,000 lesbians. [The Sun]
• Actor Joe Pantoliano, aka Ralph Cifaretto on the Sopranos, was at the RNC lobbying for his charity, No Kidding, which deals with brain disease. Joey Pants sufferers from clinical depression. [Page Six]
• The court case between Matt LeBlanc and his former business manager has been settled. You can click to see the court papers or think a happy thought about butterflies, and I suggest the latter, because the papers are a yawn. [ET]
• One year after vowing never to perform on the MTV Awards again, Kanye West will close the show's 25th annual ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday. [Reuters]
• Christina Aguilera will also perform at the VMAs. [Daily Star]
• Don't hold your breath for U2's new album: It's been pushed to 2009. Bono says the band has 50 or 60 new songs to consider for inclusion. Decision time. [Reuters]
• The dude who robbed Kiki Dunst's hotel room last August is getting four years in jail. Maybe that's why his MySpace has Jewish prayer music on it? [Gothamist]
• Ciara: Naked on the cover of Vibe magazine. [Concrete Loop]
• Akon performed in South Africa last week and when one of his female fans embraced him, he violently elbowed her off the stage. [Molly Good]
• Anthony Edwards will appear on the final season of ER, but Dr. Mark Greene is not back from the dead: He'll be in flashback scenes. [AP]
• Are you the Gatekeeper? Columbia Pictures is working on a new installment of Ghostbusters. [LA Times]
• An L.A. businessman is suing Gene Simmons over an Indy Racing League deal. [E!]
• "It's going to stop one day. It's not that you fall. It's just one day there are new people, and, you know, the opportunities aren't what they once were. It happens to everybody, man. I prepare for the worst. I think every show I do, I realize I could get booed off the stage and they could throw tomatoes. Hey — Michael Jackson, man. One day you're Vanilla Ice and the next day you're…Vanilla Ice." — Chris Rock on his career. [Page Six]
• "I live in Costa Rica, way off the grid. We live off solar power, with no car, and no telephone. I'm nothing like my character. I'm more into the environment." — Perrey Reeves, aka Entourage's Mrs. Ari Gold. [Rush & Molloy]
• "I didn't really have any expectations. They say it gives you a little more juice for the first year and that's it. It certainly didn't help me get this movie made." — Helen Hunt, on life after winning an Oscar, and her directorial debut, Then She Found Me, in which Salman Rushie has a part as an obstetrician. [Guardian]
• "The corsets were very restrictive. The worst part was after lunch because they don’t help your digestion." — Keira Knightley on burping her way through The Duchess. [The Sun]
• "I don't always love kids. Sometimes I absolutely loathe them. Children are just people who haven't lived very long yet. I'm predisposed to be affectionate if someone’s smaller but if they're loathsome in the first five minutes, they're loathsome.” — Colin Firth. [Daily Express]
• "I had sex if I had the energy. I wasn't one of those guys who believed in the myths about the guy losing his chi. The fact is that if you are riding your bike six, seven hours a day, you are not a sex champion. You're just not. You have fatigue, low testosterone and a lower libido. But you know, I never got any complaints." — Lance Armstrong to Men's Journal. [Page Six]

• OMG twins! Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline were born to Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt one minute apart on Saturday evening. Apparently Brad was in the delivery room as doctors performed a C-section on Angie: Knox weighed in at slightly over 5 pounds, and Vivienne weighed 5 pounds. Now comes the speculation over the how much photographs of the bébés are worth: The couple has maybe sold the rights to a U.S. publication — maybe People — and the proceeds will go to charity. The number being thrown around is $11 million. [AP]
• Darryn Lyons, owner of Big Pictures, a celebrity photo agency, claims that pix of the twins are worth between $15 and $20 million. The only other photos that "would possibly come that close is Britney Spears giving birth to an alien," he says. [AP]
• Quentin Tarantino is flying to France to meet with Brad Pitt — but about a movie, not about the twins. [Page Six]
• Josh Brolin, Jeffrey Wright and other members of the crew from Oliver Stone's movie W were arrested in a bar fight early Saturday morning in Shreveport, LA. Maybe someone made a Karl Rove joke? [AP]

• Uh-oh. Did Mamma Mia actress Amanda Seyfried dis the gays by not walking the red carpet at Outfest? [Page Six]
• Miley Cyrus filmed scenes for her upcoming Hannah Montana movie in Malibu's Paradise Cove and everybody went cuckoo. Screaming fans, paparazzi and the sherriff's department all converged in a perfect storm of chaos. A police helicopter buzzed overhead and, says one beachgoer, "I thought it was going to land right on the paparazzi." [Yahoo News]
• Why? Why are there pictures of Miley in the shower???? [Egotastic]
• Amy Winehouse's dad collapsed due to "stress." What do you think he's upset about? [The Sun]
• Oh, look, Amy snorting something in a DJ booth. [TMZ]
• And here Amy's dad says he fears Amy will die. Sigh. [Daily Mail]
• Amy will stop performing in September to take a break from singing and focus on her writing. Also, Amy's been "visiting" her dead grandmother in her dreams, and Nan's not happy that Amy's not living up to her potential. [Telegraph]
• Sienna Miller and Balthazar Getty: Pictured relaxing on a luxury yacht off of Italy's Amalfi coast. Not pictured: Balthazar's wife and four kids. [Mirror]
• Nicole Kidman had lunch at a restaurant in Nashville on Friday in a post-baby outing and "looked amazing." Yawn. [People]
• Kate Hudson has beaten out Sienna Miller and Anne Hathaway for a role in Nine, the movie based on the Broadway musical, starring Daniel Day-Lewis. (Can Kate keep her hands off of her co-star?) [Page Six]
• Mario Lopez doesn't tip coat check ladies when he checks his murse. [Page Six]
• Ian McKellen's performance in King Lear is coming to PBS. But will he be nude on TV as he is in one scene on stage? [AP]
• Jennifer Lopez's nanny has walked off the job. Or did she run? Apparently it's a 16-hour a day, seven days a week gig. And this is the second nanny to leave, so Jen and Marc are looking for number 3. [MSNBC]
• Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones has left his wife for an 18-year-old Russian woman. "He met her in a dodgy escort bar at four in the morning when he was boozed out of his mind," his publicist (??) says. Jeez. No sympathy for the devil here. [UPI]
• Jarrod Beinerman, a 34-year-old reputed drug dealer from Brooklyn, has admitted that he stole a $13,000 Marc Jacobs handbag from the hotel room of Kirsten Duns last August. He could get 4 years in prison. It's not clear if Kiki got her purse back. [UPI]
• Heidi Fleiss is facing felony drug use and possession charges from that February traffic stop. She's charged with unlawful use of methamphetamine and possession of the painkiller hydrocodone without a prescription. And something about her mug shot is just plain creepy. [AP]
• Anthony Kiedis and girlfriend Heather Christie: Broken up! They were together for more than 3 years and have a son, Everly Bear. "Anthony is a great dad and I will love him forever for giving me the gift of life," Heather says. "I really hope he finds what he's looking for." Oh, dear. [UPI]
• Congrats to Tabboo of the Black Eyed Peas, who got married in Pasadena over the weekend. will.i.am, Apl de ap and Fergie attended; if you have an unusual or oddly spelled name, you might have been there, too. [UPI]
• This video of Vivica A. Fox calling Jessica Simpson the "baddest blonde bitch on the planet" while holding a flaxen-haired child is very perplexing. [TMZ]
• Jessica, Vivica and Tony Romo hung out at the Key Club together the other night. [Page Six]
• Guy Ritchie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Chris Martin and Robert Downey Jr had dinner together in the Hamptons… Madonna was nowhere to be found. [Full Disclosure]
• Maybe Madonna was at the Kabbalah center? She has given the group over $5 million — and no longer supports some other charities she once funded. [NY Post]
• The E! True Hollywood Story of Heath Ledger aired over the weekend without the dirty secrets usually revealed on that show. The stuff about Heath's father Kim fighting with his brothers was avoided. [News.com.au]
• Is Katherine Heigl going to get kicked off of Grey's Anatomy? [Perez Hilton]
• Is Milo Ventimiglia planning to propose to Hayden Panettiere? [The Sun]
• Hayden cut her hair, btw. [E!]
• Christopher Gorham, aka Henry on Ugly Betty, has left the show. He'll star on CBS drama Harper's Island. His character's name? Henry. [Yahoo News]
• The Mariah Carey remix contest: A marketing gimmick that could sound hot. [Reuters]
• Jimi Hendrix's brother Leon is trying to use the rock star's image to market a brand of vodka. Sister Janie thinks that's offensive; cue a family scuffle. [UPI]
• Shocker: Meet Dave bombed at the box office. [E!]
• Dear Brooke Hogan: Why must you dress like you're a Frederick's Of Hollywood spokesmodel? [The.Life Files]
• Marianne Faithfull is taking six months off for "mental and physical exhaustion." Be well! [Telegraph]
• "If I got a nomination, I'd make everyone in my life start calling me "Emmy." All of us in this room work extremely hard. The audience sees the end result: the show. But no one sees the process involved in getting those accolades, that recognition. It's beyond stardom. And it doesn't come often in an actress's lifetime." — Tichina Arnold of Everybody Hates Chris, in a discussion with 7 of TV's top actresses that's worth reading. Kyra Sedgwick, Minnie Driver, Jenna Fischer Calista Flockhart, Felicity Huffman and Brooke Shields also weigh in. [Yahoo News]
• "I'm not a bad person. When people say all these negative things about me, I ignore them. Let them be negative - but do that away from me. It hurts but I know there is much more good in the world. I'm blessed to be able to do charitable work and good things but no one focuses on that because I don't throw it in people's faces. That's why they focus on the negatives." — Naomi Campbell. [Mirror]

[On the set of "Heroes," Los Angeles, June 22. Image via Splash.]

[Los Angeles, May 18. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Listen to Heidi Montag's earsplittting new single, "No More," at your own risk. It sounds like this: You said I was the reason why we couldn't work out but it was all a lie...Ar ar ar ai ai ah ah blah dah dah, except in like, dolphin language. [People]
  
• Lindsay Lohan reportedly left a series of phone messages for Calum Best that were all, "I can't believe you would ever fucking do this to me, I should have listened to everyone. I should never have fucking trusted you." Hey Linds! Didja hear? That's not you in the BJ clip! [The Sun]
  
• A judge is upholding the conservatorship of Britney Spears, despite some random lawyer's appeal. [Yahoo News]
  
• Britney kept her sunglasses on during rehearsals for How I Met Your Mother. Very professional. [MSNBC]

• A source says the role was very carefully chosen and avoided "trigger" topics like her music career and her kids. "They just wanted her to be treated normally, but obviously this wasn't a normal situation. This wasn't about her career, it was about her health." [MSNBC]
• Ooh, Britney revelations via Henry Rollins! Yeah, that's right, Henry Motherfucking Rollins! Henry sez: "They have the black chick come in and sing, and Britney sings over it, and they mix them together. (Britney) gets her phrasing basically from this older R&B woman. I found that out talking to an engineer. Britney apparently isn't actually the worst singer, she just has no feel. So they bring in this older black woman who sings the song, then Britney sings to it, and they kind of make a mix of the two voices, and that's what you hear on the records." [Dlisted]
• Cashmere Mafia: Dunzo? And Lipstick Jungle coming back? Is anyone watching either show? [Page Six]
• A dude named David K. Zandi is lobbying to star in Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, a Disney flick based on a video game. Actors up for the role include Orlando Bloom, Milo Ventimiglia and Zac Efron but Zandi says "people are fascinated that a real Persian with royal lineage could be hired to play this role." And by people he means himself. Anyway, Disney is all LOL. [Page Six]
• Grey's Anatomy star Justin Chambers had a vasectomy after he and his wife had their 5th child. But! The couple would consider adopting! Are they battling Angelina for kiddie supremacy? [Page Six]
• Weekly mag editors find Ashton Kutcher's show, Pop Fiction and the fake news it's trying to peddle (Avril's pregnancy, Paris' guru) in a word, yawn. [Rush & Molloy]
• Nude photo of Carla Bruni, aka French First Lady, up for auction! [Rush & Molloy]
• Allen Covert, who has co-starred in a dozen movies with Adam Sandler, was arrested on the set of his latest Sandler film when he spat and slapped a paparazzo he thought was filming his kid. [TMZ]
• The family of Bob Marley will not allow his music to be in a Weinstein Co. film, even though Rita Marley is an executive producer on the project. But Martin Scorsese is set to direct a documentary on Bob, which would be allowed to use his music, according to Ziggy. [TMZ]
• Dancing With The Stars alum Sara Evans went through a very public divorce battle last year but won't let that stop her from getting engaged to a former University of Alabama quarterback. Congrats. [People]
• Milo Ventimiglia has a YouTube account in which you can see videos of Milo brushing his teeth and whatnot. Gripping! [People]
• The Smashing Pumpkins are suing Virgin Records for illegally using their name and music in promotional deals. Did anyone know the Smashing Pumpkins were still around? [Yahoo News]
• Sean Diddy Combs has settled a lawsuit brought by a man who claims the rapper punched him outside of a Hollywood hotel, but the terms of the deal are unknown. [Yahoo News]
• Denise Richards, who was legally known as Denise Sheen, is changing her name back to Denise Richards. Don't these people have anything better to do than go to court? [Yahoo News]
• Heather Mills once claimed she'd been offered a title, Baroness Mills; a new TV documentary calls bullshit on that. [Mirror]
• Ice T and Coco have a sex secret called The Stroke that you can feel free to read more about if you care to. [The Sun]
• Amy Winehouse has been offered £350,000 to perform at a Dutch club that is "in the heart of the biggest drug circuit in Holland." Oh, dear. Sing, take the money and run! [The Sun]
• Pete Doherty was seen visiting Amy's house with hands that looked like they "hadn't been washed for a week." Such lovely imagery this morning! [The Sun]

• Avril Lavigne is pregnant! Maybe! [News.com.au]
  
• Janet Jackson has been asking designers like Badgley Mischka for bridal gown samples! Is she going to marry that gremlin Jermaine Dupri? [Page Six]
  
• Janet poses as brother Michael from Off The Wall on the new cover of Vibe. [Concrete Loop]
  
• Oooooh, George Clooney on the cover of Time! [The.Life. Files]
  
• Is it a girl for Minnie Driver? She was seen buying girly baby clothes from J. Crew and talking about her pregnancy. [Page Six]
  
• Pink says her divorce is not about cheating, anger or fighting. She writes on her Web site: "One never knows the future, but mine and Carey's just might involve beach babies and sunshine one day. Just not right now." [People]

• Spencer Pratt is trying to get himself and Heidi Montag a reality show of their very own, awww. And when meeting with producers, Spence does all the talking; Heidi's not allowed to open her mouth. Romantic! [Page Six]
• Milo Ventimiglia on when people gossip about his relationship with Hayden Panettiere: "It makes me smile." [People]
• In Las Vegas, Victoria Gotti and anti-fur actress Marsha Thomason, aka "Naomi" from Lost, got into a loud squabble over Gotti's fur coat. It'd be a lot more interesting if they were both more famous, but whatevs. [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which pop diva goes to great lengths to keep her entire body glowing? When she spray-tans, she demands her nether regions get the treatment as well." [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which producer who's well known for his voracious appetite for women has a funny modus operandi? He asks actresses seeking roles to come up to his hotel suite, then excuses himself to go use the restroom and comes back wearing only a robe?" [Page Six]
• The LAPD is investigating whether Sam Lutfi drugged Britney Spears. Several witnesses have been interviewed regarding the drugs in Brit's system when she was most recently committed. [TMZ]
• A judge doesn't think Britney's conservatorship needs to be a federal case. No shit. [TMZ]
• Brit's dad Jamie doesn't want the case transferred to federal court either. [People]
• Britney's driving-without-a-license case was put on hold because her lawyers do not think she is "qualified or capable" to deal with it right now. [CNN]
• Two paparazzi were arrested while trying to photograph Britney Spears at a hair salon; two others were arrested outside a nightclub as the LAPD cracks down on photogs obstructing traffic and causing chaos. Two of the snappers were from TMZ. [USA Today]
• Amy Winehouse was reportedly "fantastic" at the Brit Awards, yay for her! [Mirror]
• Angelina Jolie took Maddox to see The Spiderwick Chronicles yesterday. Damn, he's cute. [TMZ]
• Is Jack Black's new movie plagiarized from a Nickelodeon skit? [Perez Hilton]
• Pauly Shore is countersuing his neighbor, movie director Wes Craven, for "slope failure," landslides etc. Backyard horror story, haha. [E!]
• Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown is joining the team of Access Hollywood as guest correspondent? That could be fun. [UPI]
• Meanwhile, Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell is going to Capitol Hill today as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund, a development agency that focuses on women's reproductive health. Colors of the world! [U.S. News & World Report]
• Victoria's Secret model Miranda Kerr on beau Orlando Bloom: "He's a sweetheart." [People]
• Vincent D'Onofrio has a new baby boy! Luca was born on Valentine's Day. [USA Today]
• The Directors Guild of America has approved a contract deal that helped pave the way for the settlement in the writers' strike. [Reuters]
• Sylvester Stallone is willing to testify in the trial of Anthony Pellicano, who's accuse of tapping the star's phone. [USA Today]
• Paula Abdul thinks her new video is so bad, she's "trying to pretend like it didn't happen." LOL! [MSNBC]
• Jessica Simpson's movie, Blonde Ambition, is No. 1 in Ukraine. First of all, Ukrainians, please don't think that she — or this film — represents all Americans. Secondly, why? Why? Third... going back to bed. [People]
• Wait! Is this Shia LaBeouf's amazingly buff body or a photo manipulation? Also: Bulge??? [ONTD]

[Image via Oh! My God! I Miss You ]

• Kim Kardashian is engaged to NFL star Reggie Bush! We're starting to suspect she likes black guys. [Perez Hilton]
  
• Britney Spears spent New Year's Eve at a beach house in California with her sons, her court-appointed monitor and her new boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib — who was invited to Brit's hotel room last week and told other photogs it was "the best night of his life." Good luck, kids! [Page Six]
  
• A performer at a New York cabaret club spilled drinks on Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore; the owner says "Fuck Ashton and Demi... They spend nothing... I can't stand those two, and I applaud whoever spilt a drink on them." Damn, 2008 is gonna be great. [Page Six]
  
• Hayden Panettiere and Milo Ventimiglia: It's on! Especially now that she has turned 18. (He's 30.) [TMZ]
  
• Robin Thicke and wife Paula Patton: Expecting. Here's hoping that blind item about a singer "living out his sex fetish dreams" is not Thicke. [ONTD]

• Dave Chappelle got into an argument with his wife in a New York City restaurant — in front of his two sons. The wife was in tears, the lunchtime crowd was "shocked." [Page Six]
• Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein (now 34) tried to kill himself when he was 24: He put a loaded gun in his mouth. He says, "It's been "9 ½ years since I've had a drink or taken drugs... but I'm still a drug addict." [Page Six]
• Cisco Adler thinks ex Mischa Barton looks "so hot" in her mugshot. Heart-warming! [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which 40ish actress has finally gotten pregnant for the first time? Her rep is denying it because she's only a month into it, and has suffered miscarriages in the past. Said our source: 'Watch for her to get bangs and start wearing hats to hide her sagging face because you can't be on Botox when you are pregnant.'" [Page Six]
• Blind item! "Which gorgeous daughter of a foreign-born billionaire had a fling last year with Prince William? While their families don't get along, and she could never marry the future King of England, the hookup between their clans was not unprecedented. [Page Six]
• Dominick Dunne writes about the inquest into Princess Diana's death in the new issue of Vanity Fair, noting that four photo agencies in Paris were robbed on the night of the crash, and hundreds and hundreds of paparazzi pictures were stolen and have never been found. Coverup? [Gatecrasher]
• Tiffany (New York) Pollard and Tailor Made partied and shared a beer in South Beach on New Year's Eve. Yawn! [Gatecrasher]
• Blind item! "Which Las Vegas mover and shaker is having a very public affair with a beauty queen who wears the name of a neighboring state on her sash? 'It's so out in the open, but the photographers know they're not allowed to take a picture when she's sitting on his lap,' says a snitch." [Gatecrasher]
• Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds were wed on New Year's Day on an island near Bora Bora. Mazel tov! This is the second marriage for both; Murphy has 7 kids, including the daughter of Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown. The Brits call him Beverly Hills Cock! [People]
• Is Tyra going to adopt a kid??? She's reportedly said, "I've wanted to adopt since I was nine. I have a connection with children and they don't have to come from my womb for me to have that connection." Can't wait to see her teach a little one to smile with her eyes. [The Sun]
• Paul McCartney's secret heart operation: Not secret anymore! The 65-year-old Beatle had coronary angioplasty in the fall. [The Sun]
• Meanwhile, Heather Mills ended up watching Paul McCartney in concert on TV on New Year's Eve. Auld lang syne, sigh. [Mirror]
• Does Pam Anderson's marriage have problems? "Oh, there's plenty," she says. "What can you do? We're all human. We're all trying." [People]
• Dax Shepard, once seen on the arm of Kate Hudson, is now with Heroes' Kristin Bell. The gentleman prefers blondes! [ONTD]

• Lindsay Lohan may be strapped for cash — she reportedly shopped around staged Thanksgiving photos with of herself with mom Dina, sister Ali, brothers and boyfriend Riley Giles to the celeb weeklies. The asking price started in the six figures, but dropped to $20,000. Also, does she get paid to be seen shopping at stores like Armani Exchange and Intermix? [MSNBC]
  
• LL and Riley are dunzo: She dumped him after they got back to L.A. after Thanksgiving in New York. "She got tired of him pouting all the time," a source says. Also, he never paid for anything, not even sodas. Does he even have a job? [E!]
  
• Mary-Kate Olsen is recovering from her kidney infection by partying 'til 3 a.m. She cannot be stopped! [Page Six]
  
• Tila Tequila "is not really bi," says a source. "It's all a sham. She as a boyfriend... MTV works hard to pretend she's single." Wait, you mean there's something fake on MTV? [Page Six]

• Ex-porn star Jenna Jameson and Heatherette designer Richie Rich are opening a bar in NYC's Chinatown. Expect the interior to be delightfully tacky. [Page Six]
• Drea de Matteo popped! She and longtime boyfriend Shooter Jennings had their first child Wednesday, a daughter they named Alabama. Dig the name! [Page Six]
• If you're interested in a spoiler for that damn Sex And The City: movie, click here. [Page Six]
• Paul McCartney gives all his ladies the same thing: a bottle of perfume and lacy undies. Ever heard of can't buy me love? [Page Six]
• OKay, so we knew something was up between Helio Castroneves and his dancing partner Julianne Hough, but we did not realize that she is 19 and he is 32. [Rush & Molloy]
• Oh wow, spin control! Julianne says "I love Helio like he is my brother." [People]
• The season finale of The Hills is only half an hour, but there will be a two days of programming on MTV: A Lauren Looks Back special "video scrapbook" of LC's life from Laguna Beach High to today, the finale, and a live after-show, with the ladies answering viewer questions and an announcement that "will leave fans wanting more." Unless it involves Spencer dropping off the face of the Earth, we're pretty sure we don't want more. [People]
• Conan O'Brien is paying 80 staffers during the strike: NBC is paying them through the end of November and Conan agreed to personally cover the salaries for the foreseeable future. Seeing as how it's almost Christmas, we're sure this is the best news some people could ever have. [People]
• Hey, so you know how Milo Ventimiglia, 30, and Hayden Panettiere, 18, aren't dating? Here's a picture of them coming out of the movies together. [People]
• There's a video of Julia Roberts pissed at the paparazzi. She followed a photographer who was attempting to film her and yelled at him to "Turn it off!" Roberts accuses him of taping her near a school. [TMZ]
• Amy Winehouse is heading into the studio in the new year to record her third album, and sources say it might be amazing: "Some of Amy's best writing stems from emotional heartache and turmoil. She's actually more creative now then she's ever been," says a source. No shortage of material, that's for sure. [Mirror]

Name: Milo Ventimiglia

Known for: His role as Rory's boyfriend on Gilmore Girls. Oh, and some hit show called Heroes.

Why We Hate Him: Numerous mentions on sister site Gawker.com about his despicable treatment of former girlfriend Alexis Bledel, including pushing, and nasty name-calling.

We're Not Done Yet: He shares his name with one of our favorite characters of children's fiction as well as a beloved chocolate drink. Isn't that enough?