You may have read that Lisa Marie Presley is suing The Daily Mail for calling her "fat" (having "gained weight just like her father Elvis", evidently) when she is, in fact, pregnant.

Fair enough, we thought, pregnancy is one aspect of the celebrity-obsessed realm that we really wish would disappear from our world, what with "baby bumps" and "post-baby weight" and so on.

However, we were somewhat amused to see how quickly the Mail have changed their tune, and wonder whether this article was a part of the settlement:

Lisa Marie Presley looked pregnant and proud as she unveiled her budding baby bump in Los Angeles.

The daughter of rock icon Elvis stepped out with third husband, musician and producer Michael Lockwood in Beverly Hills, following confirmation that she is pregnant with her third child.

Dressed in a fashionable print maxi dress, chunky platform sandals, and large hoop earrings Lisa Marie looked radiant and every inch the happy mother-to-be.

We'd be pleased if it wasn't so obviously a tail-between-legs show of Doing The Right Thing™. Although, we're not sure about crossing those British tabloids, Lisa Marie - just ask Kerry Katona. It could be much, much worse.

We saw a brilliant photography exhibition many moons ago, which basically involved rubbish retrieved from celebrities' bins, laid out against a white background like specimens, and snapped. We remember quite vividly that Madonna's bin contained both laxatives and heart-shaped lollipops.

Anyway, if someone is keen on reviving this artform, now's the time to do it if you live anywhere near Amy Winehouse's stately abode, as evidently the rubbish is piling up just like the wings Blake pulls off flies.

If the state of one's home is any indicator of the state of one's life - this huge pile of junk outside singer Amy Winehouse's Camden home reveals hers is currently a load of rubbish.

Boxes of junk, broken bits of furniture and a pile of dumped clothes were seen outside the Rehab singer's home today.

Attention London-based Defamer pals, please make your way to Camden post haste and pick up a shipment of Winegums' ex-wardrobe.

If we're lucky there might be some grody ballet flats and a bright red bra in there!

* NB Defamer Australia's Editor leads us to believe that in other states "hard rubbish" night is known as "kerbside clean-up". Just so you know we're not state-centric or nothing...

Now that The Dark Knight is close to our screens, word is circulating amongst those excitable buff types that Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker could earn him a posthumous Oscar nomination in next year's awards.

From what we've seen, it looks like an amazing performance, and posthumous Oscars have been awarded in the past (beginning with Sidney Howard in 1939 for his Gone With The Wind screenplay) - what we have a problem with is the way the News Ltd champs have chosen to discuss the story:

Hollywood star Heath Ledger's immediate family might be cheered to know that there is some good news doing the rounds about their late son.

The word out of Tinseltown that the actor is being considered for a posthumous Oscar for his as-yet-unseen work as the Joker in The Dark Knight.

Just a feeling we have.

After yesterday's shocking revelation regarding Deni Hines' cheerleader hating ways at the recent NBL grand final, it looks as though the flood gates have opened when it comes to anti-Hines tales, with anyone who has ever witnessed Deni even glancing at something in a less than beatific way stepping up to the gossip plate and screaming "I hath spied her witchery with thine own eyes!" to any showbiz reporter with a dictaphone within a five kilometer radius.

Today the Daily Telegraph has published the sorry tale of a bitter wedding singer almost ruining the happy day of Australia's very own Beyonce, Ms Ricki-Lee Coutler, and her beloved Jamie Babbington.

Guests at Coulter's nuptials on the Gold Coast in September claim Hines stopped the band in order to fast-track her own performance after proceedings slipped slightly behind time.

The sometime jazz crooner's manager Karen-Lee Goody, who also managed Coulter at the time, was allegedly overheard warning a venue staffer that if Hines was not on stage within minutes she would leave.

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There's nothing that riles us up more than when the press has a field day over a woman who chooses not to maintain her body hair to the same pre-pubescent standards as every other starlet (remember the Julia Roberts underarm fiasco?), and the latest victim in the war against full womanhood is Celine Dion.

A "Celebrity Blogger" who shall not be named was the first to kick the "story" off, which we more or less expect given the quality nature of his blog, but we were dismayed to see that 'proper' news outlets followed on. To wit, the Daily Mail:

Her face had been carefully made up, nails polished and outfit primped just so, but Celine Dion forgot one important thing before performing in Toyko over the weekend.

It appeared the My Heart Will Go On singer had forgotten to wax her legs, with severe back lighting revealing their rather hairy state as she strutted around the stage.

But despite the grooming oversight, she succeeded in wowing the crowd with a typically dazzling performance.

What?! She FORGOT TO WAX HER LEGS? We're surprised there weren't mass walk-outs and demands for refunds! Oh but, hold on, it's okay - even though she was a hairy hosebeast, she still managed to sing well. Lucky for her...

Unwaxed legs, what a complete affront to everyone's senses.

Perhaps these news dudes would like to book in for an upper-thigh wax, and then see whether they still feel that Dion "forgot" to carry out what they seem to be implying is a basic necessity, or whether they'd rather stick pencils in their eardrums than slather themselves in hot wax before yanking out their body hair.

It's no longer shocking to see a celebrity waltzing around the beach post-op (Courtney Love, anyone?) but, thankfully, most celebs remember to remove their bandages before donning their itsy bitsys. But what if said bandages are there for life? And in the form of their own flesh? Well, if they belong to surgery-happy Patricia Heaton, we will all have the pleasure of viewing them! In light of recent photos showing Ray Romano's television wife in her bikini and missing one bellybutton, the Huffington Post dug up some slightly unreadable details on the magically disappearing must-have and the revelations, like the photos, are not pretty:

"My belly button was herniated. Then there was that skin that hung there. It didn't work to suck it in. It wouldn't have mattered if I had done 1,000 sit-ups. "

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Person with gun arrested at Kate Hudson's house! "A woman called 911 after seeing what she thought were men on her roof with a rifle. When cops arrived, they found two young men, one with a camera and one with an unloaded rifle. From what we're hearing on the scene, the men are telling cops they are shooting a movie -- and NYU is nearby. Both men are in cuffs and are still being interviewed at the scene." If it later comes out that one of them was shirtless, it will only confirm our suspicion: That those intrepid Tisch undergrads will stop at nothing to get their sweded version of Fool's Gold on tape. [TMZ]

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It's been nearly two months since we first heard about The Chosen Two's impending arrival, but judging from the size of Angelina Jolie's widening waistline, we suspect Brad's super sperm went into baby-making action a bit earlier than that. Seen yesterday shopping for books in Austin, Texas, Angelina's belly seems to be expanding at an exponential rate not yet seen in celebrity pregnancies. Which got us thinking, what if we saddled Jolie up next to J. Lo and Julia Roberts just before they burst? That way, we can begin to suss out just what size muumuu to FedEx to Casa Brangelina come spring.

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International ambassador of the ancient Quebecois artform of chest-thump singing Celine Dion was nabbed by an unfeeling British tabloid press recently. Her crime: performing to a Tokyo crowd sporting a pair of unwaxed legs, giving her the aura of a power-ballad-belting kiwifruit when exposed to harsh backlighting. It's precisely this kind of music industry double-standard (Tom Jones had to insure his chest against depilatory acts of God) that really makes us appreciate all that goes into being a French Canadian diva, and resist our reflexive instinct to make greatest-hits-inspired jokes ("I Drove All Night (To Find An Open Drug Store Selling Venus Razors)," "(What Do You Say To) Taking Personal Grooming Chances," etc...) at the singer's expense.

• Hair-raising: Celine Dion takes to the stage with furry legs [Daily Mail]

At last night's Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, Justin Timberlake reignited some long-dead interest in Madonna's sex life by revealing one of her current flirting tactics. And while it doesn't compare with a simulated blow job, it may be more effective in today's health-concerned times. It seems that when Justin and Madge got together to work on her next album, Hard Candy, she dipped into her bag of tricks and fetched a liquid-filled syringe. And even though the injections in question didn't contain GHB or roofies, they did have this desirable effect on Timberlake:

"I don't know what you say to that, so I immediately dropped my pants. She gave me a shot in my ass and looks at me and says, 'Nice top shelf.' That was one of the greatest days of my life."

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If The Devil Wears Prada knocked up Sex and The City: The Movie and they had five kids? Besides the birth of our worst nightmare, that is? Well, Disney's upcoming Confessions of a Shopaholic franchise will be sashaying from its likely pink carpet premiere to a theater near you (sorry) next Valentine's Day. The British books, penned by Sophie Kinsella, starred a clumsy heroine who manages to be even less likable than Bridget Jones. Pictures from the set of the film have just starting rolling in, and while we want to believe Isla Fisher can save the movies from being chick flick throwaways, the sight of her in this over-the-top (even for the Brits) bridesmaid dress doesn't exactly put our minds at ease. [Just Jared]

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By now, we realise that we were "pap'd" by the Paris-and-Guru photo opportunity a few weeks ago, which was orchestrated by the devious media mastermind Ashton Kutcher and broadcast on Sunday night as part of his new show Pop Fiction. In the clip above, we watch Paris engage in her pre-hoax therapy-style production meeting, where she states that there is a "time and place" for all the paparazzi attacks launched against her, but that she has become exhausted by all of the unwanted attention. In order to put the papps in their place, she decided to combat all the unwanted press and guerilla forces NOT by avoiding attention, but rather by hitting some of her favourite hotspots with a mint-addicted healer impersonator in tow. That'll show em!

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Few came away from Ang Lee's vision of Hulk--about two freakishly massive, green cowboys who smash boulders and each others' hearts on the open Wyoming plain--feeling the director had really done the Marvel source material justice. So it was with a measure of relief that Ed Norton announced he would be sweeping in to reclaim the franchise, with a bold re-envisioning of the beloved tale of Dr. Banner and his rageoholic, gamma-bomb-enhanced Mr. Hyde. Now, reports Deadline Hollywood Daily, the legendarily exacting Norton has been locking horns with the Marvel Studios brass over final cut:

Insiders say Norton was "promised tremendous involvement and access" after Marvel invited him into the core team to rewrite Zak Penn's script. Says one insider, "There's a lot of posturing going on between Edward's camp and Marvel over how you edit the final version."

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· The first tantalising images from Britney Spears's next music video have emerged, revealing that the director has devised a clever way to avoid missed call times and awkward wardrobe fittings: Animate her! Still, not all crises were averted, as a famished Cartoon Britney accidentally devoured the cast of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, who happened to be wandering by on their way to a shoot next door. [The Sun]
· Lede of the Day: "CNN said it shouldn't have used a former U.S. attorney who quit his job after allegedly biting a stripper as an analyst about New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's prostitution scandal." [AP]
· jPod, Canada's Quarterlife, has been canceled. Paging Rockstar Silverman. Paging Rockstar Ben Silverman: Hot foreign series concept in need of U.S. retooling! [The Vancouver Sun]
· The Photoshop Disasters blog wonders what it is about the solid bar between two skyscraper windows that fascinates The Dark Knight so. [Photoshop Disasters]
· Stoner Mary Ann is even cuter when her uncropped mugshot shows you how little she is! [Yahoo News]

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A truly stunning nighttime photo suite of Neverland Ranch, the precursor to such other children-and-one-adult-male-populated ghost towns as Kid Nation's Bonanza City, has surfaced on Flickr. Beneath a starry Santa Barbara sky, such featured attractions as the Sea Dragon, the carousel, and the Huckleberry Finn Boys-Only Dunk Tank And Swedish Sauna Dry-Off Room lie in a state of suspended animation--merely waiting to snap back to life the moment its self-exiled proprietor successfully refinances one of his own children, freeing up the funds to tidy up the Bubble-bones and return the amusement estate to its former glory.

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Thanks to Judd Apatow's loveable stoner humour and the mass excitement caused by the impending Harold and Kumar sequel, it seems that pot and pot-loving celebs are inching closer and closer to mainstream acceptance. But news of which stars contributed tips to celebrity stoner lit's latest entry, Pot Culture, has us harkening back to the days when Bob Dylan and Woody Harrelson gave long-winded interviews to High Times. Though the names aren't exactly A-list, the pieces of advice on how to get merrily mellow are far more creative than any pothead logic we've ever heard. Find out who lays out DIY instructions on how to construct your own gravity bong, who demonstrates the always-reliable apple bong technique, and who gets away with lying to their husband about her toking habit by covering up the smell with lip gloss after the jump.

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Step aside, Ghost of Marlon Brando. Hit the bricks, Bobby DeNiro. The newest disciple of Constantin Stanislavski's renowned Method acting technique is none other than Miss Foxy Cleopatra herself, Beyonce Knowles. Fresh off of her exciting and unexpected upset of Kanye West in a heated match of Connect Four, Beyonce arrived on the set of Cadillac Ranch this week determined to regain all of the buzz that Jennifer Hudson usurped from her in Showgirls Dreamgirls. In fact, she's so dedicated to making her performance as Etta James shine that she's taken to staying in character both on and off the set. As this Media Take Out tipster reports:

I was at the (swanky New York City celebrity hotspot) Waverly Inn a few nights ago and you'll never guess who showed up - Beyonce ... Beyonce was sitting next to some White guy who kept saying to her 'Don't worry Etta, ignore it Etta.'"

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As we noted earlier, living pop icon Madonna, who was once nailed to the disco-cross for our voguing sins, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last night at New York's Waldorf Astoria Hotel. She was first introduced by recent collaborator/turning-out-victim Justin Timberlake, who warmed up the crowd with an amusing anecdote about the time Madonna injected his SexyBack with a B12 vitamin shot. (At least that's what she told him she was doing, though we suspect that syringe was pulling in the opposite direction, drawing the necessary genetic matter for a longer-term project that involves melding two generations of pop superstars' DNA together into a single, hybrid host body for her cryogenically preserved brain.)

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Lindsay Lohan has been doing an awful lot of public babbling regarding her determined efforts not to appear on Momager/pimp Dina Lohan's upcoming reality show. But does her unwillingness to appear have to do with those tightwads at E!'s inability to properly grease her pockets, or is it more that Lindsay is intentionally snubbing her fame-hungry family members? The official answers behind Lindsay's refusal have yet to be revealed, but judging from her current crop of friends, we're praying to the cable gods that either E! comes up with a killer pay cheque or Lindsay gives in to Dina's assualt-by-camera tactics. Mainly because Lindsay's new nightlife-traipsing buddies include Lesbian Wingwoman 2.0, a wanna-be music manager and, of course, Samantha Ronson.

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While the plight of celebrity munchies-sufferers has been exhaustively documented in Pot Culture, their editors seem to forget that the communing with sweet bud by the highly recognisable masses is not something relegated to the current generation. Why, none other than Dawn Wells, Gilligan's Island's sacrificial-virgin offering to brunette-lovers, was picked up back in October for driving erratically on an Idaho highway. "A search produced four half-smoked joints and two small cases to store marijuana -- which she blamed on hitchhikers." She was sentenced to a small fine and six months unsupervised probation, with her coconut bongs and hemp hammocks ordered confiscated from her ganja hut. And commenters be warned: All the Mary Ann/Mary Jane jokes have already been covered by Harvey Levin's ankle-shackled galley slaves. [TMZ]

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Sesame Street Shoe Fairy and part-time unicorn jockey Neil Patrick Harris was cornered by ET recently, who demanded from the How I Met Your Mother star the inside scoop on news that Britney Spears would be making her primetime TV comeback on the CBS sitcom. Responding with all the expert assuredness of an extremely well-read bathroom-literature junkie, Harris expressed "shock that Mme. Spears" was feeling up to the rigors of a role unlike any she has tackled before (she plays a secretary). He then goes on to advance a fascinating theory:

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