[Dublin, September 23. Image via WENN]

[Dublin, July 8. Image via WENN.]

• Madonna purchased a $40 million Upper East Side townhouse equipped with 13 bedrooms, nine fireplaces, and an elevator. She'll stay in her other NYC residence while she renovates her new fixer-upper. [New York Magazine]

• Shia LaBeouf is having a third surgery this month to repair his hand, which he injured in a car accident. "I've had screws and plates put in. They put a screw in one of my knuckles. And they shaved a piece of bone off my hip and made a [bone for my] finger out of it," he says. "My middle finger is still crooked as a fucking noodle, so they've gotta straighten it out and put a screw in it." [Entertainment Weekly]
• We already heard that Chris Brown denies having a new girlfriend. Now there are reports that he and Rihanna had an Easter weekend rendez-vous. [Perez Hilton]
• Here's a video of Dina Lohan dropping her daughter Lindsay Lohan off in front of a club. [Perez Hilton]
• Kanye West's arraignment on charges resulting from a fight with TMZ photographers has been postponed to May 20 so his lawyers can review the police report and additional evidence. [The New York Times]
• There's some confusing news on the Megan Fox-Brian Austin Green front. She says they are back together and are going to continue being engaged. However Megan says, "I'm not going to be married – I'm not the marrying type. I know people will say, ‘Why are you engaged if you're not the marrying type?'" She explains, "I am impulsive and I love my boyfriend, but I have no plans of getting married any time soon." [The Sun]
• Though Shawn Johnson's stalker is currently behind bars, her family has taken out a permanent restraining against Robert O'Ryan, who will have to stay 100 feet away from her for the next three years. [TMZ]
• Tori Spelling is denying that she has an eating disorder. "Oh my God, I'm not anorexic," she says. "I acknowledge that I look thin in photos. I get it." She adds: "Obviously I don't want to lose any more weight ... but people haven't seen me not pregnant in two and a half years. I'm eating healthy, I just have a crazy lifestyle." [People]
• Charlize Theron says anti-gay marriage laws are like apartheid in her native South Africa. "I don't like living in an elitist world, it bothers me. I don't want to be part of an elitist sexual preference. It bothers me, maybe it's because I come from a country where I lived under apartheid but this is a form of apartheid and I don't want to be a part of that," she says. "My ability to get married is a piece of me that I wish I could give to somebody who it would mean so much to. We should all have the chance. It's just so caveman, I can't believe we're still talking about it." [The Daily Express]
• Showtime has only renewed The Tudors for one more season. The series will conclude with season four, which will follow Henry's marriages to Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr. [The New York Times]
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maggie Smith and Rhys Ifans will star in the sequel Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang with Emma Thompson. [Variety]
• Richard Jenkins will star opposite Julia Roberts in Eat, Pray, Love. [Variety]
• A bench warrant has been issued for Angie Everhart. She was supposed to appear in court on April 6 to pay a $50 fine in her DUI case, but she didn't show up. [TMZ]
• In the new GQ Evan Rachel Wood denies that she had a relationship with Mickey Rourke once again, saying, "There was no truth to it, and it was so annoying. The friendship was intimate and nice, and this makes it weird." There are also some shots of her with a gun. [Just Jared]
• The late Jade Goody's husband, Jack Tweed, is opening a restaurant in Essex that will bear her name. [Perez Hilton]
• Jade Goody's diary is being published, and in it she writes that she received a letter from the Queen's secretary. She wrote: 'I have been instructed to convey the Queen's warmest good wishes to Jade at what must be a very difficult time for her and her family." [The Telegraph]
• Mel B says she had a friend hypnotize her to get over her stage fright over her upcoming burlesque-style show in Las Vegas. "I was getting a bit nervous. My anxiety was getting to me," she says. "I was hypnotized to calm me down and it worked." [People]
• The civil trial over the car crash involving Nick Bollea, Hulk Hogan's son, is set for March 2010. [TampaBay.com]
• The woman who sent a death threat to David Caruso after writing him around 100 letters asking for his autograph has been sentenced to seven months in jail by an Austrian court. [Yahoo]
• Nicollette Sheridan and Desperate Housewives Creator Marc Cherry are sniping over her character's demise. She feels that he was ignoring her. "When you have a jewel, why not polish it and put it out there for all to see?" she says. Cherry says: "We will find a new kind of sexiness coming through Wisteria Lane. What I won't do is cast another fortysomething sexy blonde. Nicollette Sheridan] performed the aging neighborhood tramp better than anyone has ever done before." [People]
• Rocky Hill, guitar player and brother of ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill, died last Friday. Dusty disowned Rocky about five years ago when he insulted his wife and they never made up. [Radar]
• PETA has awarded Miley Cyrus its Compassionate Citizen Award because she took home chickens from the set of Hannah Montana: The Movie. Costar Jason Earles says: "Miley picked [the chicken] up thought it was real cute and decided she needed to save this chicken. So she put it in a cardboard box with some pine straw and got her mom to take it home. She is funny with animals - she was like ‘I have to have that chicken'. She falls in love like you wouldn't believe." [Just Jared]
• Eminem poses as the comic book character Punisher on the cover of the new XXL. He says of his three year hiatus: "I stayed up on the music, and obviously I watch TV and saw what was going on. And without naming any names, it just felt like hip-hop was going downhill. And it seemed like kinda fast. You know, in them three years, it was like everybody just cares about the hook and the beat; nobody really cares about substance. But with this new T.I. album, with this new Lil Wayne album of recent, it seems like things are looking a lot better now. You can appreciate Lil Wayne using different words to rhyme and actually rhyming words that you know. Or T.I., where you hear shit and you're like Whoa, ah, I wish I would have thought of that! You know what I mean? Or you hear all the compound-syllable rhyming and all that. It just seems like now the craft is getting cared about more." [XXL Magazine]

• Angelina was on the red carpet in New York over the weekend, talking about her family. "Everybody's great," she said. "The babies are getting big and healthy and developing personalities." She says she has been a "little bit" sleep deprived but she and Brad find relief: "We have some help a couple of nights a week, so on those nights we catch up on our sleep." [UPI]
• Brad Pitt was there too: They are obviously not broken up. [Daily News]
• More from Angie: "Even if we lock our door, the children come knocking. We often try to have a bath alone together at the end of the night and sit and talk, but they hear the water and want to jump in. But it’s fun and it’s lovely – the thing about having six is once you’ve passed three or four, it’s so crazy anyway that it’s just more chaos and it’s all OK." When asked if she feels if she has completed her family, Angie said, "No." [Mirror]
• Angie somehow found time for two new tattoos: She now has the map coordinates of Nice, France, where her twins were born. [LA Times]
• But! As for adopting more kids Angie says: "I think we're going to wait a little while." [People]

• Lindsay Lohan is also feeling brood-y. She says: "At some point, I want to adopt a kid… A child in need or a newborn from another country. I’m not sure yet." [Mirror]
• Samantha Ronson sent Perez Hilton a check for $86,832: The amount to cover his legal fees in her failed libel lawsuit. [E!]
• Lauren Conrad on the rumor that she hooked up with Justin Bobby: "These accusations are so crazy, it's difficult for me to take them seriously. While my usual taste in guys isn't always perfect, I do prefer they shower regularly." [E!]
• History was made Saturday night, when Tyler Perry became the first African-American ever to launch his own major TV and film studio. Oprah cried. [People]
• Speaking of Oprah, she is being sued by the former headmistress of the Big O's Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa for defamation of character. [E!]
• Amy Winehouse supposedly received a "welcoming" phone call from the Church of Scientology, in which they offered her detox help. So crazy it just might work? [Mirror]
• Amy Winehouse has one thing going for her: She's not broke. [Mirror]
• Blake Incarcerated sent Amy's dad a "vile and abusive" letter filled with threats. Sigh. [The Sun]
• Holy crap, did Courtney Love have gastric band surgery to stay thin? [Perez Hilton]
• Eddie Van Halen: Engaged. [People]
• Elizabeth Taylor is "heartbroken" after the death of Paul Newman. They starred together in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof and were friends for years. [Daily Express]
• Gossip Girl is pulling in better ratings than it did a year ago, but the producer says "We try not to live and die by the ratings." [NY Daily News]
• David Letterman has a great Sarah Palin recap video. [Deadline Hollywood]
• Miss Jackson is still nasty: Janet has postponed 3 more shows our her tour due to illness. [AP]
• Bruno, aka Sacha Baron Cohen, was at the Stella McCartney show, being disruptive by clapping along to the music "way too loud." Paul McCartney was just a few seats away. [Daily Express]
• Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham in yet another pair of ridiculous shoes. [The Sun]
• Johnny Depp wants to be in the Little Britain movie. Computer says yes? [Mirror]
• Madonna's Sticky & Sweet tour kicked off this weekend in New Jersey; there were "guest appearances" by Kanye West and Justin Timberlake and the performance was a "success." This review says: "The 50-year-old has toughened up, replacing some of the frothiness of her pure pop days with a bracing physicality." [Variety]
• Kylie Minogue was seen "looking cozy" with a "dark-haired mystery man" in Paris. Get it! [The Sun]
• Rachael Ray has a benign cyst on her vocal cord, which she'll have minor surgery to remove in early December. [UPI]
• So you know how we heard that Ali Lohan might work with Johnny Wright, who had produced Justin Timberlake and the Jonas Brothers? Johnny Wright says: "Johnny Wright has never met with Ali Lohan, has never been introduced to Ali Lohan, nor has he had a meeting with Ali or Dina Lohan regarding Ali's music career. While he wishes Ali Lohan the best in all her endeavors, Mr. Wright has never had any intention of speaking with Ali Lohan regarding her career. Any story that has surfaced about such a meeting holds no merit and is completely false." Haha wow. [Page Six]
• Salma Hayek wore a traditional Bavarian dress on German TV and her cups runneth over. [The Sun]
• Pam Anderson delivered Hugh Hefner's birthday cake — in the nude. [Mirror]
• Beyoncé's "wedding" ring is about 18 carats and worth about $4.3 million dollars. Don't drop it down the drain! [Daily Mail]
• Blind items! #1: "Which wife of a rock superstar has been punishing him for going to strip clubs without her? The spouse has spent about $30 million on a house they don't really need to get back at him for not including her in his adventures." #2: "Which boy-band member is going to shock his female fans when he comes out of the closet?" [Page Six]
• Emma Thompson says her her biggest accomplishment in life was "giving birth without painkillers" and her happiest moment was: "just after giving birth without painkillers." [Daily Express]
• David Hasselhoff's ex-wife blabs about the Hoff being a drunk: "He’s an alcoholic. He has a disease, just like cancer." [Daily Mail]
• Shakira's for Obama. [AP]
• Rumer Willis was named after the British writer Rumer Godden: "I don’t know whether my mom had read much of her stuff, I guess she may have just been in a bookshop and liked the sound of it. I used to get teased at school, Rumer Tumor, that kind of thing, but I’ve got used to it. You do." [Times Of London]
• David Spade has texted Heather Locklear to check in with her. He says: "I think there's no one that doesn't feel for her or have nice things to say about her in my experience." [People]
• Bond vs. Bond! Sean Connery's new book, Being A Scot, has sold only 5,000 copies since its release in August. Roger Moore's biography, My Word Is Bond, is doing much better. [Telegraph]
• Emma "Baby Spice" Bunton says The Spice Girls are over. "We're all in our 30s now and, let's face it, by then most people aren't doing the same thing they were when they were 18, which is how old I was when I first met the girls. I'm ready to move forward." [Daily Mail]
• A judge has ordered a Texas doctor and his wife not to distribute video footage of Anna Nicole Smith's breast augmentation surgery in 1994. Thanks, judge. [The Star UK]
• Joss Stone will make her small screen debut in The Tudors, playing Henry VIII's wife Anne of Cleves. [Daily Express]
• Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't want his kids to inherit his £750million fortune. He says: "They aren’t bothered. They don’t think that way. It is about having a work ethic – I don’t believe in inherited money at all. I am not in favour of children suddenly finding a lot of money coming their way because then they have no incentive to work." [Mirror]
• Does Marilyn Manson owe his former bandmate $20 million in back pay? He'll be in court November 3 and we'll find out. [E!]
• Sad face: Carol Channing fell at her home and broke her leg and hip. Speedy recovery! [Modesto Bee]
• If you want to know all about John Lennon's adultery pact, when he left Yoko Ono for a year of "reckless debauchery" and told her, "You must take a lover too," then click here. [Daily Mail]
• Kevin Bacon will produce a Showtime series called The Booths about the man who would assassinate Abraham Lincoln. [Variety]
• Rod Stewart's son is in rehab. [The Sun]
• Jude Law picked up some dancer at a club in NYC and she stayed "holed up" in his hotel room for three days. [Page Six]
• There's Bull Durham sequel in the works. No, really. [Page Six]
• "I'm going to stop playing when I'm 67 and work on what I really want to do, which is to be a minister, like Little Richard." — Carlos Santana. [Reuters]
• "I've always admired her talent. She's somewhat hampered sometimes by having this gorgeous face, the most gorgeous face on the planet. She's on covers and all that stuff. But she is a great talent, and it would be easy to overlook that, except after seeing this you realize that she is this great, talented person." — Clint Eastwood on Angelina Jolie, who stars in The Changeling, which he directed. [People]
• "I really loved my husband's penis. It was really pretty." — Pink. [Mirror]

• The Paris-Lindsay truce is officially on, thanks to Paris' appearance at Lindsay's 4th of July makeoutfest. (Side note: new Lindsay boyfriend is either some soap star's son or some legendary horrible diva's son, both of whom we're pretty sure she can relate to!) Official reason given for the warming of relations is shifting alliances, balance of power and the taste of the lost freedoms both might endure if this cold war continued... yeah, yeah, you get the joke. [Rush & Molloy]
  
• "She's my rock." That's 38-year-old recovering alcoholic John Sundahl on... Britney Spears! Sometimes dry drunks still slur their speech so we're thinking he was misquoted attempting to say "dumb as a..." but, apparently, they're screwing! [We are not sure why but the only place we can find this online right now is China Daily]

• Ewww: Harry Potter has pubes and gets all "deal with it." [Page Six]
• OMG double ew: Rudy and Judi are hooked on that premium channel "upscale randy" boobiefest "The Tudors." [Page Six]
• Prince Harry threatens to quit the army if they don't figure out how to conceal his identity while he hits on Canadian strippers. [Page Six]