The 2009 Miss California Pageant, coming up next month, will eliminate sashes and swimsuits in an effort to "reflect the progressive attitudes of the contestants as well as our forward- looking state."

• Madonna has flown a nanny and a nurse to Malawi to look after Mercy while adoption papers and visas are being arranged. The deal's not done and the kid already has an entourage! [The Sun]

Since Carrie Prejean has thrust the Miss California USA Pageant Organization into the spotlight, the team over there decided to make use of its sudden relevance with a new PSA video, called "I Believe."

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• Brooke Shields is contradicting her own reps, who said she wasn't involved in the Kiefer Sutherland headbutting incident. Now she says she "was bumped into by Jack McCollough and Kiefer Sutherland became concerned."

In an interview with Focus On The Family today, Carrie Prejean said being asked about gay marriage was the work of the devil himself... and she doesn't mean Perez Hilton. [U.S. News & World Report]

• The National Enquirer claims that Mel Gibson sat his kids down and informed them that his Russian girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, is pregnant with his child, and they aren't too happy about it.

• Kiefer Sutherland may be looking at a minor assault charge in NYC for headbutting designer Jack McCollough. The real problem?

• Rihanna was the big show-stopper at the Met Ball: Celebs cheered when she took the stage to perform. And! At an after-party, guess who RiRi was in deep convo with?

Yesterday TheDirty.com posted topless photos of Miss California Carrie Prejean and supposedly there are more revealing pictures to come. Prejean says the site posted the pictures in an attempt to belittle her Christianity.

The Miss California USA organization paid for Miss California Carrie Prejean's new breasts to allow her to compete "in the best possible confidence." Who knew self esteem came in a plastic bag of silicone?

The National Organization for Marriage recently demanded YouTube remove parodies of their Gathering Storm commercials due to copyright infringement. Now Perez Hilton has used the same law to force NOM to remove their new ads.

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

Blogger Perez Hilton is alleging, in typically classy fashion, that the Miss California pageant paid for Carrie Prejean to get breast implants between the Miss California and Miss USA competitions. But is it true?

• Tyra Banks will be in court this week; she's expected to testify in the trial of her alleged stalker, Brady Green.

Although the recent Miss USA/gay marriage debacle the media has offered both Perez Hilton and Carrie Prejean the opportunity to continue discussing the issue, neither should be a spokesperson for either side of the debate.

• El oh el: It appears none of the celebrity weeklies have bought exclusive rights to pictures of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt's wedding this weekend.