- A source claims Tony Romo dumped Jessica Simpson so abruptly because he found messages on her phone from none other than her ex, John Mayer.
- Says the source: "They were hanging out and he picked up her phone and she got defensive about it. Tony found messages from John and went ballistic... Tony dumped her right then. He walked out and that was it." [Radar Online]
- A source says of Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson's breakup, "She was caught off guard." While poor lonely Jess has been lying low, Tony was out partying with his friends on three of the four nights since their breakup. [E!]
- Hustler has created a Lindsay Lohan parody porn called Hustler's Untrue Hollywood Stories: Lindsay Lohan. It features porn star Scarlett Fay as Lindsay and follows various events in her life such as her Marilyn Monroe photo shoot, her relationship with Samantha Ronson, and lots of sex, of course. [Fleshbot (NSFW)]
- Debbie Rowe's lawyer made the New York Post retract a story that claimed Rowe was paid $4 million by Katherine Jackson in exchange for not seeking custody of Paris and Prince. He said Rowe would not take money for giving up custody and the story "can only have been concocted with reckless disregard for the truth." [CNN]
- Police arrested two paparazzi outside Debbie Rowe's ranch in Palmdale, California after she called 911. One didn't have a driver's license and the other was riding on top of the other photographer's car. [TMZ]
- CNN is reporting that LaToya Jackson was paid for the recent Daily Mail interview in which she said Michael Jackson was murdered. Because that's the only thing that would make you doubt that interview. [MTV News]
- Someone from the L.A. County Coroner's office went to the office of Dr. Arnold Klein, Michael Jackson's dermatologist today to hunt for missing medical records. [TMZ]
- In 2005 a man filed a $120 million lawsuit against Janet Jackson because he claimed her bodyguards beat him up after he said hello to her. Today a judge threw out the case saying, "There is no evidence upon which a jury could rationally find that (Jackson's bodyguard) was the assailant, or that Jackson directed the assailant's actions or negligently failed to control him." [The Daily Express]
- The promoter of Michael Jackson's London shows wants to do a show on his birthday, August 29, featuring his brothers and possibly Janet Jackson. [The Mirror]
- Elizabeth Taylor is in the hospital and Cindy Adams wrote today that she is suffering from exhaustion because she's been crying so much after Michael Jackson's death and denied her access to their funeral pews and barred her from the events because she was Michael's friend, not theirs." Didn't Liz say she had PLANNED this surgery and it has nothing to do with MJ's death? [UPI]
- Amy Winehouse is back in the U.K. from St. Lucia. "She is good. She has been looking after herself," says a friend. "She did a lot of exercise and she has been eating better. Look at her – she is not what she was." [People]
- LeVar Bruton was injured in a five-car accident in Los Angeles. An elderly woman turned left in front of him and he crashed into her. No one was seriously hurt and Burton was treated for neck pains and released from the hospital. [People]
- Jon Gosselin lied to designer Christian Audigier so he could bring his girlfriend Hailey Glassman on a business trip to St. Tropez. "[Jon] had told me was he was going out there with his stylist," said Audigier's rep. "We said we could accommodate her going out there as long as she's bringing his biker wardrobe or something relevant - motorcycles being the key the factor in all of this." [TV Guide]
- An anonymous source says of Hailey Glassman, "She's one of those crazy party animals," who never had a steady boyfriend in college said a source, "She would probably be that type of girl who would get on top of the bar and start dancing." [People]
- David Arquette and Courteney Cox have signed on to do Scream 4. [E!]
- Another cast member has been added for The Real Housewives of Orange County, Alexis Bellino. Here's how the press release describes her: "Alexis keeps herself busy by being the best wife and mother she can, and when she does have a free moment, she likes to work out to keep herself looking and feeling her best." [People]
- Previously Morrissey cancelled some tour dates due to illness. Now he's called off two more because of "unresolvable" issues. [The Daily Express]
- Jennifer Connelly and her husband Paul Bettany play Charles Darwin and his wife in the biopic Creation, which is opening at the Toronto International Film Festival. [Yahoo]
- Ricky Gervais will star with Jennifer Garner and Tina Fey in The Invention of Lying, a film about a man who discovers everyone he knows tells the truth, and believes whatever he tells them. [Yahoo]
- Kim Kardashian Tweeted: "We are here in Botswana, South Africa! Wow what a long flight!" She's in the country of Botswana on a "humanitarian" trip. [Perez Hilton]
- George Carlin's last book, appropriately titled Last Words will be published in November. He had been working on it for the last decade. [Yahoo]
- Brandy settled a lawsuit with another survivor of her 2006 car crash. Mallory Ham, who suffered a severely broken nose, was paid an undisclosed amount. [TMZ]
- Justin Timberlake's Mirimichi gold course will open on July 25 in Memphis after a $16 million renovation to make it more eco-friendly. [AP]
- Russell Brand will host the MTV VMA Awards once again in September. "This year will be a controversy-free festival of love and discrete orgasms," he said. [The Sun]
- Jordan says of estranged husband Peter Andre: "Whatever women he chooses in his life I just hope he's happy with them. I've got no bad feelings - as long as they're girlie girls and can paint Princess's feet and hands and play all the games the kids love like I do. I've got no animosity towards Peter, I just want him to be really happy." [The Sun]
- Amy Adams, who has been engaged for a year to actor Darren Le Gallo says, "I've been really busy, and I feel like a horrible fiancée that I haven't gotten swept up in the whole idea of a wedding but I just haven't... He wants to be married... I think he was patient for the first nine months, but that we have been engaged for a year, he's sort of, you know, 'This is going to happen, right?' He understands I'm busy but he's ready. He's much more ready for kids and stuff than I am." [People]
- Clive Davis says of Whitney Houston's upcoming album, "you won't forget it after you hear it." [ABC News]
- Emma Watson says of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: "There's just much more chemistry, much more interaction between all the students... It was quite a different Hermione for me to play because usually she's this very tough, very stern, you know she's kind of like this ‘girl power' (character). And in this one, she's much more fragile, vulnerable. She kind of gets her heart broken a bit." [CBS News]
- "You know, I'm not really doing the dating thing. I don't feel like I'm in the world of dating. I don't feel like a young twentysomething. I'm happy working but it's not a case of 'I don't have time for a girlfriend'. I do. It's just like everyone else who's single I suppose." — Daniel Radcliffe [The Daily Express]
- Daniel Radcliffe on photographers snapping pictures of Emma Watson's undies: "I did feel bad for her. Men will never know the kind of humiliation of having an upskirt done, which poor old Emma had. We talked a few days after her birthday, and she said, 'It was awful, they were all over me. They were trying to shoot up my knickers!' It's incredibly invasive. That's why I do think it's much, much harder for girls being famous than it is for guys." [L.A. Times]