• Chris Brown was sentenced today to 5 years probation and 180 days of community labor. The judge said she's aware of the rumors that he and Rihanna are in touch and won't tolerate a violation of the protective order.

• She ordered Chris not to assault or threaten Rihanna, or even speak to her on the phone or through a third party. He has to stay 100 years away from her, or 10 yards away if they're at an industry event. The judge said she wants Chris to do hard work for his community service, like washing cars or removing graffiti. He has to pay several fines, can't own weapons, and must complete a 52 week domestic violence program. [TMZ]
• Jon Gosselin says being paid to have your life filmed is hard work. "I wish I had a 9 to 5 job instead of the nightmare I'm living. This is 24/7," he said. "I don't even want to do taping for the show anymore." [Us]
• Jon and Kate Gosselin are feuding over money. Jon says Kate is hiding assets from him and Kate says he's wasting the kids' money on taking various female friends on vacation, buying sports cars, and renting a pricy New York apartment. [Radar Online]
• Amy Winehouse is suing ex Blake Fielder-Civil's mother for selling one of the letters she wrote him while he was in jail. [The Sun]
• During a trip to Las Vegas Paris Jackson went to a salon with one of her aunts and got what she said was her first haircut. [People]
• Lisa Marie Presley says Christine White, the former nanny who is suing her for not getting meal breaks and having to work 7 days a week, actually took frequent breaks in her own guest house on the property and had chefs and other staff at her disposal. Presley says, "Ms. White's self-entitlement became more and more severe as she became exposed to the various 'perks' she was given on the job." [TMZ]
• Ola Ray, the woman who starred in the "Thriller" video, sued Michael Jackson in May claiming she wasn't paid enough. Now she's filed a creditor's claim against his estate. [TMZ]
• Steven Tyler says he's recovering from breaking his shoulder after jumping off the stage at a show, saying, "I've been better. I've got my arm in a sling. I'm on all the drugs I'm not supposed to be on. But I'm dealing with the pain pretty good." He joked that he jumped off the stage because the band needed publicity. As for the rumors that he was drunk during the incident he joked, "Do I sound fucked up or stoned?" [Rolling Stone]
• Shia LaBeouf was seen cuddling and kissing his Money Never Sleeps co-star Carey Mulligan at a cafe in New York on Sunday. [People]
• Officials from the Church of Bulgaria are urging people not to attend a Madonna concert in the country this weekend because they say she "openly violates" Christian symbols and displays "a disrespectful and intolerant attitude" toward Christians. [AP]
• Debi Mazar says that her best friend Madonna is excited that she'll be on the new season of Dancing With The Stars (with dancing partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy). "She's really excited for me," said Mazar. "She was on her way to Budapest and she just said, "Oh, my God! How great! And you are dancing with Russians-how lucky are you?!" [E!]
• Marissa Jaret Winokur joked that she didn't write her weight loss blog for People last week because she "called in fat." [People]
• Brandi Glanville says she had an idea that her husband Eddie Cibrian was attracted to LeAnn Rimes when they went on a double date with LeAnn and her husband Dean Sheremet. Glanville says she's used to woman throwing themselves at Eddie but, "it was different this time. It was a little more reciprocated." She says that Rimes and Sheremet "were very touchy-feely. They seemed happy. [But] I felt like it was almost like 'I love my husband. I'm not after your husband.'" [People]
• In the next few weeks Wikipedia will introduce a system to check new entries about famous people before they go live to prevent false entries. [Telegraph]
• Javier Bardem, John Leguizamo, Penelope Cruz and Rosario Dawson will be honored at the ALMA awards on September 17, which celebrate Latino achievement in entertainment. [Hollywood Reporter]
• TLC members Rozonda Thomas and Tionne Watkins (a.k.a. Chilli and T-Boz) will perform together for the first time in six years at the Justin Timberlake and Friends concert in Las Vegas on October 17. [Rolling Stone]
• At the link is a two minute video of Jasmine Fiore shot in 2005 when she hosted a promotional segment for a Las Vegas clothing store. [Radar Online]
• Jordan denied the rumors that she's pregnant with Alex Reid's baby, writing on her website, "No no no its sooo not true looks like ill have to pee on the preggie stick to prove this not engaged of getting married x [sic]." [The Sun]
• True Blood had 5.3 million viewers on Sunday, making it the show's highest rated episode ever. [Entertainment Weekly]
• Alyssa Milano and David Bugliari are on their honeymoon at an undisclosed South Pacific resort. A friend of the couple says, "They've already celebrated their one-week anniversary." [People]
• BBC Radio Ulster is in trouble with a media regulating agency because Tony Curtis called in to a radio show in the middle of the day and said "bastards," "bullshit," and "fuck off." He didn't realize the show was live. [The Guardian]
• Patrick Stewart saw a ghost while performing Waiting For Godot with Ian McKellen at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which many believe is haunted. Stewart saw a man standing in the wings wearing 19th century garb and told McKellen during intermission, "I just saw a ghost. On stage, during Act One." [Telegraph]
• "I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters. We have three dogs. If I act like one of the dogs with the dogs, they go crazy. It's like we're talking Richard Pryor in his heyday." — Jerry O'Connell [People]
• "In the mid-'90s, my dad said to me 'Son, you've got all of your eggs in one basket and you are living and dying by music,'" says Billy Ray Cyrus. "He said 'I want you to have a career like Kenny Rogers.'" Billy Ray took his dad's advice and became and actor, winning a role in Mulholland Drive. [CNN]
• "Tabloids were my text books, I'd tear out pages. I embrace pop culture; everything that people say is poisonous, ostentatious and shallow. It's like my chemistry book. I look though everything and make what I believe is art out of it." — Lady Gaga [CNN]

• Alec Baldwin is public enemy number one in the Philipines because last week when David Letterman asked Baldwin about his desire to expand his family, he joked:

• "I'm thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point...or a Russian one." [E!]
• John Krasinski has befriended his co-star Lake Bell, so clearly he's planning on breaking up with Emily Blunt. A source says, "John and Lake have been flirting like crazy on set. In between takes, they sit next to each other, giggling and whispering like teenagers - he'll play with her rings or she'll rest her head on his shoulder." [Star]
• More sources confirm that Mel Gibson's girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva is pregnant. Supposedly she's in her second trimester and he's already told his other children. [TMZ]
• A settlement has been reached in screenwriter Benedict Fitzgerald's lawsuit against Mel Gibson over The Passion of the Christ. Fitzgerald claims Gibson understated the film's budget and told him he would not receive any money from the film, but considered it a gift of his faith. [Yahoo]
• Jon and Kate Gosselin plus their eight kids celebrated the sextuplets' birthday on Saturday. Their bodyguard Steve Neild was there, along with TLC's cameras. When shooting was done, Jon and Kate left in separate cars. [E!]
• Stars are checking in on Twitter after Sunday's earthquake in L.A. Miley Cyrus (who was in the Bahamas) Tweeted: "did anyone else feel the earthquake. 5.0!!!" Thankfully, Lauren Conrad is unharmed: " Earthquake!! We were relaxing at home watching TV and the building started rocking. We are fine! :)" Lindsay Lohan kept it short: "Earthquake scared me!" [People]
• Ryan O'Neal has confirmed that there will be a follow up to Farrah's Story that will air on May 15. "We haven't stopped filming and we're going to make a second installment of her life eventually," said O'Neal. [MSNBC]
• Ethan Zohn of Survivor: Africa has a rare form of Hodgkin's Lymphoma and began chemotherapy treatments last week. [People]
• In this clip from Good Morning America, Christian Bale is asked if he has an anger problem and he says that while "John Conner has an anger problem," the incident in which he yelled at co-worker was resolved within 30 seconds in real life. [TMZ]
• While promoting her upcoming musical Nine at Cannes, Penelope Cruz came down with "some sort of food poisoning." She's seeing a doctor and trying to get better before the premiere tomorrow. [People]
• Though Paulina Porizkova said she suspects she was let go from America's Next Top Model because she complained about Tyra Banks' behavior, Banks and a producer released a statement today saying, "America's Next Top Model is not immune to these financially challenging times. We've had to make significant cuts in every area of the production and, unfortunately, Paulina was a casualty of these cuts." [People]
• LeAnn Rimes and her husband Dean Sheremet are selling their Franklin, Tennessee mansion for $7.45 million. There's no word on where they are moving, or if they will both be moving to the same house. [TMZ]
• Wanda Sykes says of calling Rush Limbaugh "the 20th hijacker" at The White House Correspondents Association dinner, "Here's the problem with people who aren't comedians, [who] deconstruct comedy. It wasn't a 9/11 joke. Of course, 9/11 isn't funny, but it wasn't a 9/11 joke." [Politico]
• Kate Walsh's estranged husband Alex Young has been trying to get financial information on Walsh from the ABC network and her accounting firm. The firm asked for a protective order against Young, but a judge has denied it. [TMZ]
• The New Kids on the Block set sail on Friday for a cruise to the Bahamas with 2,000 fans. "I don't know what we were thinking," said Donnie Wahlberg. "We have nowhere to run if it gets out of hand." [People]
• Mary Louise Parker is mad because she had to do a nude scene for Weeds that she did not feel was necessary. "I didn't think I needed to be naked," she said. "I fought with the director about it, and now I am bitter. I knew it was going to be on the Internet: 'Mary Louise shows off her big nipples.' I wish I hadn't done that. I was goaded into it." Co-executive producer Roberto Benabib said, "We felt at that point in her life, defenses had been so thoroughly stripped away. There was a nonchalance to the nudity that informed the scene … I thought it was wonderful, one of the five best scenes Mary-Louise has ever done [on Weeds]." [People]
• Carmen Electra will appear in a week's worth of shows this July in Crazy Horse Paris, a topless cabaret show in Las Vegas. "She's not going topless, but she will be wearing very little. She's going to wear whatever she is comfortable with," says a rep for the show. [People]
• ABC has cancelled Samantha Who? because the show couldn't cut it's budget enough. [Variety]
• Jamie Kennedy was performing at a New York City comedy club this weekend and girlfriend Jennifer Love Hewitt worked the merchandise table selling Kennedy's T-shirts and DVDs. "She took my shirts and bedazzled them," Kennedy says. "She would take regular shirts and put sparkles on them, and we actually sold out of them – people go nuts for them." [People]
• The songwriters behind Mamma Mia! will bring their present their musical Kristina in English for the first time at Carnegie Hall in September. [N.Y. Times]
• Deborah Harry says she's "pro everything you can do to feel better and make yourself look better. I have no qualms about surgery whatsoever. I don't want to look like I've had a load of surgery." [The L.A. Times]
• Mike Viola, who produced Mandy Moore's new album Amanda Leigh says, "It's not the voice on any of her recordings. She's like a soul singer. She really has it-great pitch, great tone, real range, incredible stamina." It was Viola's idea to use Moore's birth name as the title, "because it's almost like starting from scratch. She's trying to make a real artistic record. Good for her! Good for fucking her!" [NY Magazine]
• Taye Diggs and his wife Idina Menzel are both on Private Practice, but they don't play each other's love interests. Diggs said he's OK with his wife making out with Tim Daily on set because he's a good looking man and she deserves it. Menzel replied, "You know what? I do deserve it. Because Taye's always kissing beautiful women on movie sets. About time I got my turn." [NY Magazine]
• Everyone at Cannes is talking about Lars von Trier's Antichrist, which involves a genital mutilation. The film is described as a "treatise on grief and gynophobia" and a misogyny consultant is credited on the film. Some people booed, some laughed, and some clapped at the end of the film. At a press conference von Trier said he made the film because "It's the hand of God... And I am the best film director in the world. I'm not sure if God is the best God in the world." [N.Y. Magazine]

• Chris Brown's lawyers are arguing that Rihanna shouldn't have to testify in court because her name and other information was leaked. They say she shouldn't be forced to compromise her privacy any further. [TMZ]

• A friend of Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer says, "They're definitely broken up, but it was completely amicable. I know everyone is looking for the big juicy fight, but there was none." That's never stopped the tabloids before! [E!]
• California Attorney General Jerry Brown says three people were part of the conspiracy to feed Anna Nicole Smith's addiction, but Howard K. Stern was the "principal enabler." He says Stern was "the one that brought the drugs in many cases to Anna Nicole Smith." He added, "this was done knowingly and this was done with tragic consequences." [People]
• A source claims that Britney Spears is not dating Jason Trawick. "They are absolutely, 100 percent not dating," says the source. "He is her agent, and that is it." [Us]
• In this video Hugh Jackman speaks Japanese and flails about on a Japanese game show. Then a dude grabs his crotch. [ONTD]
• Nadya Suleman hasn't moved into her new house yet, but it's already been TP'd. [TMZ]
• Kylie Minougue is bringing her Spanish model boyfriend Andres Velencoso home to Australia to meet her parents. [News.com.au]
• Leighton Meester is the frontrunner to star in Beastly, a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. [E!]
• Garry Marshall contacted Robin Williams' people following his aortic valve replacement surgery earlier this month. He says of Williams' condition, "I hear very good reports." [People]
• In this video Larry Flynt makes the bold claim that he's slept with more women than Hugh Hefner. [TMZ]
• Elizabeth Taylor's granddaughter Naomi Wilding and her husband are expecting a baby, which will be Taylor's fifth great-grandchild. Taylor's friend says the news has given her a new purpose. "To Elizabeth life is all about friends and family and she's terribly excited about meeting the new baby due fairly soon," he says. [The Daily Express]
• Pete Doherty almost quit his band Babyshambles because a fan gave him a wedgie while he was crowd surfing. Pete says: "I hid in the tour bus crying. When they (my bandmates) found me I was crying my eyes out, going, 'The band's not working out. We should split up.' Nobody believed what was wrong, and eventually I snapped, 'All right, I got a wedgie, OK?'" [The Daily Express]
• The New York Times has posted pictures of things Judd Apatow has in his office. The writer was shocked to not see "a single bong, beer keg or passed-out partygoer." [NY Times]
• Here's the trailer for Jennifer Aniston's new movie Management. It starts with her telling a guy he can touch her butt and goes downhill from there. [Video Gum]
• Penelope Cruz is in talks to star in Venuto al Mondo, which is directed by Sergio Castellitto, the Italian director who gave her her first break in Don't Move. [Variety]
• Chris Cornell is responding to Trent Reznor insulting him on Twitter, writing back, "What do you think Jesus would twitter. ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or ‘Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.' " [Rolling Stone]
• Jessica Simpson is speaking out about Rihanna and Chris Brown. She said at a concert in Phoenix last night: "No matter what you go through in life, no matter what abuse you go through, take your heart and run so far away." [E!]
• Tom Jones said his wife of 52 years told him she's OK with women throwing their panties at him "as long as you come home to me, as long as you don't go running off with somebody." [Yahoo]
• Marley Shelton, who stars on the CBS series Eleventh Hour is expecting her first child with her husband. [People]
• Marko Jaric, the basketball star who just married supermodel Adriana Lima, is under investigation for sexually assaulting a woman in Philadelphia. [TMZ]
• In this video Ricky Gervais makes fun of celebrities who say they have depression or who promote themselves by talking about their addictions. [The Independent]
• Katherine Heigl's character Dr. Izzie Stevens revealed she's dying of cancer on last night's Grey's Anatomy. One of her interns on the show estimated she has a 5% survival rate, and coincidentally Heigl has a 5% chance of staying on the show. [Us]
• Jaime Kennedy has confirmed that he's dating Jennifer Love Hewitt. [RyanSeacrest.com]
• The Pixies will play their first live performance in four years at the Isle of Wight music festival this summer. [Reuters]
• Korn bassist Fieldy has released a book, Got the Life: My Journey of Addiction, Faith, Recovery and Korn which includes letters he wrote to each band member apologizing for his past bad behavior. [Yahoo]
• Hundreds of fans showed up to see Shane MacGowan of the Pogues play at a bar in Scotland, but the bar said the show was cancelled at the last minute. But MacGowan's reps say he was never booked to play there in the first place. [The Daily Express]
• Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson says of being on Dancing With the Stars, "It's scary. The waltz was a challenge because of having to be romantic and stuff but now the salsa is even harder. I've never shaken my hips before. It's hard to let myself go." [People]
• Matthew Broderick is preparing to do the Broadway play The Philanthropist and says he's glad it's only running until July. "I used to do long runs, but after six months it's a struggle. You're repeating yourself... you go on autopilot and nobody pays attention to what they're saying anymore. You screw up, then everybody wakes up for the next two weeks," says Broderick. "A Broadway show's exhausting in its relentlessness. No more normal dinner hour. You disappear from friends. I'm starting to get set for it." [The Daily Express]
• Roseanne Barr is blogging about Chris Brown and Rihanna. She says: "Rihanna is violent too and that is one of the reasons why she is back with chris brown. She thinks she has him right where she wants him now. His career is over, and he is working her to help him get it back. She thinks that since he needs her and has shown some contrition, that she can call the shots now. Violent people are control freaks, and she thinks she is in control right now. Violent couples also have passionate make up sex, and that keeps a lot of battered and beaten women hooked ..." [Roseanne World]
• Carol Burnett is a wedding crasher! Friday Night Lights actor Zach Gilford is co-starring with her in a new movie. He says: "Carol Burnett's just so goofy and funny, telling these anecdotes about crashing weddings! Because no one would question her, they'd be like, "Oh, that's Carol Burnett! That's so exciting that Carol Burnett is here." Then they'd get a free drink, and take pictures. Then just leave. She did it for year or something, she and her friend, a few years back. She'd be like, "Oh, you know, I'm a friend of a distant aunt on the husband's side." Hilarious. It got to the point where a photographer friend of hers would come and take pictures of the wedding just to make it seem more official. She's just such a goof who loves to do things because it's fun and ridiculous." [Jossip]

[Los Angeles, CA; February 20. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]