Wow, we knew the Idol franchise was going to require a decent revamp in order to draw in the punters this year, but we weren't expecting to find out that Mark Holden has been given the flick from the show!

According to the Daily Telegraph -

From touchdown to comedown - outspoken personality Mark Holden has been culled from the Australian Idol judging panel in an attempt to reinvigorate the tired format of the Channel Ten talent quest.

It is understood the network, together with Australian Idol production company Fremantle Media, reached the decision this week and will rush out a press release after the news - scheduled to be announced on Thursday - broke to media prematurely this afternoon.

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As is depressingly the case with all women in the public eye, discussion on the topic of Madonna must now detail her age in equal measure as her career. Thus, there has been just as much coverage lately of Madge's wrinkles (or lack of) and her upcoming 50th birthday as there has been her soon-to-be-released new album.

However, any way you look at it, it's probably safe to say that - old or not - she probably wouldn't approve of the following photo, if given the chance and a sheet of contact prints to tick and cross:

An "old English pub", you say? Would that be because she is OLD herself? Because, you know, if you hadn't heard, she's turning 50 this year! We know, 50 - that's almost as old as the Earth itself! Time to retire, grandma! Etc, etc.

We have spent the past few months hoping that someone might deliver Blake Fielder-Civil a special prison present of, dunno, a hamper full of plague rats, but have been left disappointed.

However, we may be about to get our wish (well, at least a very pale imitation of it) after wife Winegums visited Blake, despite being currently waylaid with ultra-infectious impetigo.

Lick it up, Blakey!

Not even a case of highly-contagious impetigo could stop Amy Winehouse from visiting incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil.

The singer left her East London house today to visit her husband in Pentonville prison despite still having a noticeably swollen face.

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Husband Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, has had fifty stitches in his arms and legs after self-harming in his cell at Pentonville prison, North London.

A source said: "He madly misses Amy, and it frustrates him that she can't even turn up on time when she visits."

Let's hope Amy does give Blake impetigo - OF THE BRAIN.

By now it's long been established that Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham more or less lives in couture and high heels, so the sight of her wearing something a little more casual would be stunning, non?

Add to that her predilection for (and funds to buy!) only the finest, and you would think that dressing like a normal human and shopping at Target would be way beneath Ms Spice, yes? We're talking serious paradigm shift shit, dudes.

Think again!

The former Spice Girl swapped her trademark tightly nipped-in pencil skirts and cleavage hugging tops for a pair of flared jeans and – gasp – a sloppy grey T-shirt.

There was no designer handbag in sight as the mother of three trawled through discount store Target with son Romeo – she instead totted a red plastic basket as she made her way through the aisles.

* Picking a wedgie in the queue at Tesco's
* Bleaching her upper lip while reading the paper on the balcony
* Deciding between 'super' and 'regular' tampons in the supermarket aisle
* "Just popping down to the shops" in her PJs

Come on, Vicky, whaddya say?

Even though we write this stuff in our underwear and ugg boots you may not realise it, we are basically fashion oracles here at Defamer Australia. So we felt it only fair that we bring you all the news and gossip from the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, which is currently underway, to share with you our fashion nous.

We'll be bringing you daily fashion diaries throughout the Festival; it will be like The Devil Wears Prada meets He Died With A Felafel In His Hand and will be totally compelling.

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· Freckles. Cowboy. Skeletor. Sweetheart. Mergatroid Murgatroyd. Chachi. Oliver Twist. Hoss. Just a handful of the nicknames that Sawyer has called people on Lost over the years. [YouTube via Detroit News]
· We have no idea how they pulled this off, but 23/6 managed to get their paws on an "advance copy of the table of contents" of the Olsen Twins' new book, Influence. [23/6]
· Treehouse Of Horror: The Movie? Hank Azaria floats the idea of an anthology movie for the next Simpsons big screen adventure. [MTV Movies Blog]
· We always thought those Monster cables the goons at Best Buy always try to bully you into buying were ridiculously overpriced. That said, we always just kind of assumed that they must work. Turns out we were wrong about the second part. [Consumerist]
· The trailer for Once gets sweded. [Hollywood Elsewhere]

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It's Oprah's Big Give fever! YOU get to give! And YOU get to give! EVeryBOdy GETS to GIVE! To start the ball rolling, we offer documented Mac-enthusiast Drew Barrymore, who made a donation of $1 million of her personal fortune to an organization that feeds Kenyan children, written out on a giant, Price Is Right-style check and presented on The Oprah Winfrey Show today. It was a gesture of such heartfelt magnanimity that none other than Drew's Charlie's Angels co-star and bestest friend Cameron Diaz (secret, mutual nickname: Poo) called in to congratulate her on the gesture. Lucy Liu, meanwhile, waited patiently on Line 2; unfortunately, time restraints never allowed her to publicly state that she too was all for Barrymore's decision to give $1 million to a very worthy cause.

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Some thoughtful person has popped the new Madge single '4 Minutes To Save The World' (a Timbaland creation featuring Justin Timberlake) up on YouTube. Revel in the French DJ shouting excitedly over the beginning while you can, we dare say it'll be pulled quite shortly.

Publicists tend to be one of two things: boring, lips-sealed mouthpieces armed with "no comment" at every twist and turn or loud-mouthed toughies whose sole duty on this planet is to defend their Amazonian clients. Nicole Kidman, for better or worse, is repped by the latter: one Catherine Olim, who sent out a nasty rebuttal regarding NY Post columnist Cindy Adams' claims that knocked up Nic threw a few back at the Oscars. And despite our affection for long-time gossip Adams and her kookily nonsensical musings, we're officially on Team Olim after hearing this statement:

"I cannot remember that last time that Cindy Adams got anything right. She's an idiot, and you can quote me."

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Austin Visschedyk, Kid Pap: Name ring any bells? We devoted several electronic column inches to the juvenile paparazzi after he was profiled by the NY Times, one of a growing member of a new tween underclass toiling in the Hollywood trenches. Like Gary Busey's child-interviewer attack victim and the Chinese Theater Ewok drop-kicked by a very territorial Chewbacca, Vosschedyk knows from child-labor perils. Still, there's something deeply affecting about hearing his first-person account to TMZ's cameras of the time Matt Dillon not only refused his polite request for a picture, but told the flash-happy youngster to "get a life" after Vosschedyk innocently got a gang of his closest pap-buddies to trail the camera-shy Crash star.

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...By members of her family.

Walking down Swanston Street in Melbourne, we heard some familiar tones - it was Natalie Gauci's winner's single, Here I Am, blaring out of a speaker system. We turned to face the din and realised it was pumping out of the Golden Tower "chat 'n' chew" restaurant, run by the Gauci family. The restaurant's covered dining area is still bedecked with home-made 'Vote Natalie' posters, which look more poignant with every passing day.

We couldn't help but feel that this was one of the last remaining places on earth where Gauci's music career was of any interest to anyone, and as such should possibly be submitted as a Heritage site.

Where did it all go wrong? Things looked set to soar for The Gauch when she took the Idol title while memories of her stirring renditions of Umbrella and Boys In Town were still fresh in the country's memory. Then things started to develop the stench of death: her album tanked, and, well, things got worse.

The latest we've heard from her is this blog on the Sony BMG site from last week, which sounds more like a gap-year traveller's email home than a missive from a busy music career.

Add to that the fact that Matt Corby, the last season's great white hope, turned down a recording deal, not to mention a decided lack of publicity regarding any 2008 auditions, and the franchise looks more or less dead in the water.

Is the Idol dream over, full-stop? Looking bloody likely from here!

If there's one thing you can count on in a world that's wild at heart and weird on top, it's that the celebrity infotainment shows will come up with at least a handful of moments every week that'll make you groan, chuckle and hurl simultaneously. As always, we make Intrepid Defamer Videographer™ Molly McAleer watch all of these shows so you don't have to. Highlights/lowlights from last week's tabloid television shows include Sally Struthers being blasted by The Insider and TMZ accusing Katherine Heigl of "calling in the gays" when she invited Grey's co-star T.R. Knight over to her house. Enjoy!

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We love it when our distant relatives in celebrity gossipmongering over at News Ltd's Confidential turn water-cooler rumours into stories - the latest in this long line of journalistic excellence is their piece on Carson Kressley, who is currently visiting our shores and was in town for Mardis Gras this weekend past.

Evidently Carson might be enjoying a little Australian romance, not that you'd be any more enlightened on the topic after reading Confidential's coverage of the topic:

Kressley has made no secret he's on the lookout for love and has been trawling Sydney and Melbourne for potentials, since splitting from his partner late last year.

Pals of the celebrity stylist were staying mum on the identity of the lucky fellow, but no secret stays secret for long when the Oxford St mafia twig to who's dating where.

And "The Oxford St mafia"? Is Confidential comparing Sydney's gay community to a notorious crime syndicate?

Meanwhile, we remain as clear on the topic of Carson's "down under lover" as we were at the beginning of this piece - do you know who it is? What year is it currently? Who is the Prime Minister of Australia? Tell us!

ED: In fairness, I don't mind throwing the word "mafia" around from time to time... especially behind words like "pink" and "cashmere". More worrying was the original online version of this story which actually said "Who's dating wear" instead of "Who's dating where" - I'm not quite sure what either version is supposed to mean.

We had no idea Kylie Minogue and Natalie Imbruglia were BFFs, but it seems the pair have graduated from champagne fueled post-Brits flexibility competitions to holidaying together!

Pop stars Kylie Minogue and Natalie Imbruglia have teamed up for a girls' holiday in Mauritius.

The Australian stars, who have both starred in Neighbours, have been staying at a luxury £3000-a-night ($6300) Shanti Ananda resort on the tropical island.

The Sunday Mirror newspaper in Britain reported the stars, who are both single after Minogue's split with French actor Oliver Martinez and the breakdown of Imbruglia's marriage to Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns, were being pampered.

We can only imagine the gossipy conversations going on as we speak, the petite pair lying side by side on massage tables and having the stresses of the pop world rubbed and pounded out of them.

K: Do you really think Olivier was cheating on me?
N: Of course not! Do you really think Daniel was bumming Paul Mac?
K: No way!
N: Oh, great. Hey, do you like Razorlight?
K: They're okay, I suppose. That reminds me, how'd you enjoy that DVD I lent you?
N: Bio-Dome? Hilarious!
K: And, you know, you were really good in Johnny English.
N: Thanks, babe. Do you think I'm prettier than Delta Goodrem?
K: Bitch, please. You are SO much better than her!
N: I know. I dated someone from Friends, you know.
K: I kissed Doctor Who.
N: Wanna go have some shots and flirt with the bar staff?
K: Lets.

There is another highly idiotic way to interpret this news.

Kylie and Natalie are holidaying together, eh? A... romantic getaway perhaps? Did Daniel Johns mean to tack on "... but my fucking ex-wife is!" to the end of his Big Day Out outburst?

Well, no. Probably not. But imagine how fucking awesome it would be if these two unlucky in love Australian pop starlets found love in each other's bony arms?

Oh, Brendan Nelson. If you hadn't made us want to slap you stupid on February 13th, we might be feeling somewhat sorry (although we'd certainly make a big and lengthy deal as to why you deserve this poll-lashing and why we aren't actually sorry at all) for you today, what with news that you are like, the least popular person ever!

Brendan Nelson and the Coalition have slumped to all-time lows in voter support, with just 7 per cent of Australians believing the Opposition Leader would make a better prime minister than Kevin Rudd. As the Rudd Government juggernaut continues to push Labor to new highs in Newspoll surveys, the latest figures reveal fewer than a third of voters would put the Coalition first on a ballot paper.

And satisfaction with Dr Nelson has collapsed, going negative for the first time since he assumed the role of Opposition Leader after the November 24 election defeat.

Going into negative? Dude, that's harsh. Somewhere in this fine land of ours, there's a very smug looking person whose name may or may not rhyme with Crostello giggling like a school girl.

There's only one thing you can do now, Dr Nelson...

A nicely performed paso doble might be just what the public need to see right now. We look forward to seeing you and Julie Bishop in sparkly ballroom dancing gear, pronto.

With two superstar parents and a lifetime spent travelling in Hollywood circles, you'd think Kate Hudson would be pretty up on her brethren in the acting community (especially those actresses gracing the cover of just about every other glossy on the newsstand). But apparently the name Katherine Heigl doesn't ring a bell with the former Mrs. Robinson. In an interview with UK Elle, the no-longer-single blondie allegedly feigned ignorance when Heigl's name was brought up, asking:

"Who is she? Oh, that girl in 27 Dresses?"

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... for Marko and Stephanie. No doubt our Associate Editor will talk more about last night's boot(scoot)ing off of the aforementioned two contestants, but we did find it interesting that Jason Coleman's plea worked so quickly.

So You Think You Can Dance judge Jason Coleman says he and the other judges were devastated at having to eliminate Hilton and Kassy last week. Could the show be losing its best dancers because Sydney viewers aren't voting for their own?

"I really care about the integrity of the competition and not just the popular people from small town cities,'' Coleman told Insider, before begging NSW to get behind Graeme, Rhiannon, Henry, Vanessa and Kate.

Sorry Stephanie, but he thinks you're only there because of the Perth support for your partner Marko.

Poor Marko and Stephanie. They should have done what The Bass demanded - and now, now she must kill them.

(Thanks to Tom for reminding us of that amazing and frightening photo of The Bass)

Dr. Drew appeared on The View today to update the world on the status of his Celebrity Rehab patients (tally: one jailed, one Scientology convert, the rest currently missing). The hosts had a difficult time swallowing one point in particular, being why anyone would allow such a difficult and deeply private journey to play out for reality TV cameras. Could it be as simple of Joy Behar's blunt assessment that these personalities are most addicted to celebrity itself?

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Oh, Leslie Hall - your strange, shimmering brand of genius never fails to thrill and delight us.

If you thought yesterday's news that Her Madgesty was planning a trip to Australia was thrilling, you'd best prepare yourself for a pants soiling because someone she had sex with a while back and who was once something resembling a celebrity is coming to Oz to do nothing in particular at all! Yes!

Outrageous former NBA basketball player Dennis Rodman is about to land on our shores and the marketing company behind his trip is looking to make a few bucks.

Several organisers of premium events have been approached to see if they would want Rodman at functions - and, if so, how much they would shell out for his appearances.

Imagine, if you can, just how more amazing this news would be if Dennis Rodman had done anything of note during the past few years!

We're still holding out for the American Idol scandal motherload, but so far, we've had to settle for underwhelming pseudo-dirt regarding the wig-wearing, gay-stripping skeletons hiding inside some of the male contestants' closets. Even that Idol scandal mainstay--the racy photo--is a little bit of a letdown this season. Where last year brought us Antonella Barba peeing, this year, we get this rather humdrum shot of Ramiele Malubay grabbing a handful of sushi-slinging co-worker boob. Wake us up when it's revealed that puppy-eyed front runner David Archuleta is actually a 52-year-old woman with a song in her heart and a growth-deficiency in her DNA.

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Has the Hef finally reached that age where he should start relegating his casting decisions to someone with, ahem, better vision? After understandably courting Lindsay Lohan to pose for Playboy following her NY Mag shoot (Note: we may have typed the phrase "following her NY Mag shoot" approximately 79 times in the last week. That's called a successful spread, people.), the robed golden oldie has now set his sights on none other than the collective 100 pound twosome that are Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Having previously begged the then-plumpish-sized twins on their 18th birthday, Hef is still under the impression that "the twins are every young man's fantasy," according to a source at Ace Showbiz. Call us crazy, but last time we checked, women with the bodies of 12 year-old boys who dress like grannies ready to hop the bus to Atlantic City don't exactly set men's pants ablaze...

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Look, we're all upset at losing a new Australia's Favourite Son-In-Law contender (the position having been sadly left vacant ever since Tom Cruise abandoned Our Nic and pursued his interest in couch-jumping and psychiatry hatin') in Benji Madden, the tattooed twin from Good Charlotte who has moved on from his relationship with actress Sophie Monk with lightening speed - and straight into the arms of Paris Hilton.

But the tone in this article regarding Ms Hilton's donning of a 'B' necklace leads us to believe that somewhere in a News Ltd office, there's a writer taking things particularly hard and strangely personally.

Paris Hilton may be showing off a bejewelled B named for her latest lover Benji Madden, but really, it may as well stand for bitch.

Thems fightin' words!

The necklace is the latest display of nasty behaviour straight from the pages of Hilton's how to be a bitch manual, and surely designed to get a rise out of Madden's ex fiancee Sophie Monk. Monk was especially attached to the "B" for Benji necklace the Good Charlotte guitarist gave her as a gift last year, even insisting on wearing it in the promotional material she did to launch the Bio-Fit bra for Pleasure State last June. Close to her heart, literally, behind-the-scene spies on the set recalled Monk wouldn't be parted from the trinket necklace at the time.

Hang on, Benji's giving the same gift to all his ladyfriends? Surely that would leave a bad taste in Paris' mouth (not an unusual occurence, but nevertheless...). How odd.

But while the Hollywood heiress clearly thinks she's winning the battle of the blondes, she's effectively only flaunting her deep seated paranoia and insecurity along with the necklace.

We really did look earnestly for a by-line on the off chance we'd discover Sophie Monk is now writing for the Telegraph, but there's no trace of the author in the online version of the article (unless we have been blinded by lack of sleep and, perhaps more devastatingly, lack of coffee this morning).

Regardless, Sophie Monk will no doubt be pleased to learn the Australian media is 100% behind her. Once Andrew Bolt and Michelle Grattan throw in their two cents, we'll be done.

If you haven't yet seen the bizarre Jack Nicholson ad for the Hillary campaign, well, feast your eyes on the video above, sure to be studied as the ultimate example of celebrity endorsements gone wrong by generations of poli-sci majors enrolled in "Hillary '08: Sketches In Failure." In it, a variety of trademark Nicholson psychopaths mumble vaguely pro-Clinton lines of out-of-context dialogue. (Good thing, too, as the line pulled from A Few Good Men, Gawker point out, is followed by the very un-presidential rumination, "Promote 'em all, I say, 'cause this is true: if you haven't gotten a blowjob from a superior officer, well, you're just letting the best in life pass you by.")

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When Ellen Page strutted onto the stage of Studio 8H to deliver her monologue on this week's episode of SNL dressed like one of the Sweathogs, we didn't pay it much mind. With the benefit of hindsight (and after having seen this skit), maybe our eyebrows should have risen ever so slightly. But, at the time, we were too busy enjoying Andy Samberg's impression of Diablo Cody to wonder about the Ellen Page Sexuality Sweepstakes. While all you bloggers and froggers out there will likely concur that his Diablo didn't quite reach the level of the Diablo impersonator in the Funny Or Die video, we did love the calvacade of blog references that he managed to mix into his impression. The video, along with a complete list of all of the blog-related catchphrases in the making follows after the jump:

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It's a sad day in the blogosphere when the one bit of happy news we've heard all day proves to be a complete farce. Us has just posted a statement from Winona Ryder's rep informing all Wino4eva enthusiasts that the actress is not, in fact, engaged to boyfriend Blake Sennett. Poor Winona. Just when we thought the day finally came where one of her rocker beaus would make her an honest woman, it turns out to be nothing but a dream. [Us]

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· OMG! AFTRA wants SAG to start negotiating with AMPTP ASAP! [Variety]
· What do Charlie Sheen, Rosie O'Donnell, and Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard have in common? Hint: Not talent! A year-old interview with the La Vie en Rose star reveals she's a 9-11 conspiracist, too. Edifice sept! Edifice sept! [Variety]

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Brian Grazer has made little secret of his helplessness over his knowledge addiction: The superproducer's cravings have become so extreme, he can regularly be found shivering in the alley outside the Imagine offices awaiting his cultural attaché, who arrives bearing a bindle of high-grade Blue Insight for Grazer to cook up over a bare lightbulb and inject directly between his concept-hungry toes. But with his trusty idea-pusher having decided it was time to move on, the unusual job listing for his replacement has been making the Hollywood rounds. The New Yorker reports:

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If we could swap ex-boyfriend lists with any celebrity, it would have to be newly-engaged (!) Winona Ryder. Johnny Depp, Rob Lowe, Daniel Day Lewis, Christian Slater, David Duchovny ... swoon. But we digress. The Getty Images blog is reporting that the top-heavy worldwide-forgiven shoplifter is with fiance. And while the lucky guy in question isn't the prettiest boy she's ever gotten under the covers with, he's got rocker cred. Cali native Blake Sennett, guitarist for indie band Rilo Kiley, has apparently been working with Winona on a film called Water Pill, though we can't find any mention of the mystery flick on IMDB or elsewhere (perhaps it's an indie sex tape? One can only hope.) More details on when and where they made their announcement, including what newly appointed cultural observer Courtney Love had to say about it, after the jump.

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A highly placed Defamer operative asks: "Which hunky entertainment news anchor has been quietly dismissed for showing up to work drunk? (Quite a feat, considering some of his co-workers' track records.) But the real dirt is even better--apparently, he's gone through all of this once before." Hint: NOT Donny Osmond.

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Good news to pass along on this Monday morning. We are pleased as punch to announce that Douglas Reinhardt has been added to the Defamer roster, where he will be serving in the role of contributor. Some of you may recognize Douglas' name from his blog, Skeet On Mischa, where he has been keeping tabs on pop culture ephemera since 2004. He will be penning a new short burst feature for us called "A Call To The Bullpen", a feature that will run thrice daily here on Defamer, beginning today. But before we debut the feature, here's a quick bio of Defamer's newest contributer:

Douglas Reinhardt is a writer who grew up in Orange County as well as the South Bay area of Southern California, which ironically was where they filmed the show, The OC. He would like you to believe that his favorite films and TV shows are, but not limited to Days of Heaven and The Wire, but actually he really enjoys Step Up 2 The Streets and Randy "The Dawg" Jackson Presents America's Best Dance Crew. Reinhardt has overwhelming fear that Nikki Finke will not like his posts and that she will crush him much the same way she crushed the career of Eli Roth. When not listening to the Howard Stern show or hard at work on a Diablo Cody knock off screenplay, Reinhardt enjoys jogging and drinking with friends and strangers.

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Towards the very end of SNL, guest host Ellen Page veered from the show's regular template for a sketch virtually bereft of jokes--more of a 3-minute mini-play, really--in which she gushes to roommate Andy Samberg of the near religious experience that was a Melissa Etheridge concert. "There were so many athletic girls in tank tops...And then the Indigo Girls came out...And then Ellen DeGeneres came out and did this bit about being in the closet when she was young! And it was so true!" Asked by Samberg if she "went gay," the reluctant-to-be-labeled character responds, "I just feel like an oil lamp that's never been lit. Why can't I just hug a woman with my legs in friendship?"

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Tend to the wounds of your ill-advised weekend bear-wrestling adventures with the box office numbers:

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What better way to start the week than with another batshit episode contributing to the American Tragedy that is Britney Spears? According to the always-credible Fleet Street tabloid The Sun, Britney went into (sigh) one of her now-signature rampages after allegedly discovering roughly a dozen "flirty" text messages in current beau Adnan Ghalib's iPhone, a rampage that concluded with Britney tossing the pricy toy into her pool. Apparently, the famewhoriest paparazzo in the world has been photographed canoodling with a waitress, and The Package discovered their illicit texts (described as "pretty saucy stuff with sexual references -- certainly not the sort you'd send to just a friend"). And yet, the best is yet to come: in response to his dearest's accusations, Adnan hand-wrote a child-like love letter to the maybe-bipolar "singer," complete with the nauseating phrase "milky bowl of soup." An image of the pathetic apology, complete with scrawled hearts and florist letterhead, after the jump.

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Lindsay Lohan has never been one to shy away from press, no matter how bad or embarrassing it may be. And following right on the heels of her controversial nip-baring photo shoot for New York Magazine, Lindsay's apparently become so fond of showing off her T&A that she's decided to arrange various photo shoots displaying each of her five tattoos. And though the tats' placement aren't, as far as we know, placed in the vicinity of body parts the revealing Marilyn Monroe-inspired shoot didn't dare show, we wouldn't be surprised if a nouveau tat representing some lame Chinese saying for sobriety appeared in the exhibit, premiering this Thursday in New York. Images of LiLo's known tattoos after the jump; it's up to you to figure out how highbrow artists are going to manage to turn the oh-so-original stars and John Lennon lyrics into masterpieces:

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If any of you had the fortune of seeing Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes in HBO's latest TV movie Bernard and Doris, you may remember the tobacco heiress's inexplicable desire to adopt a hare krishna healer. And now, following in the aristocratic footsteps of her idolized lady-who-lunch predecessors, Paris Hilton has decided to add a Buddhist monk "guru" to her ever-changing collection of confusing, flamboyant accessories. The gray-bearded, orange-robed monk has now replaced her standard arm candy of dogs, D-list actors and purses emblazoned with her own visage on them. But is Paris genuinely interested in learning the ways of the Dalai Lama, or is she eerily mirroring Duke's descent into madness?

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