We've been watching Kate Moss' burgeoning relationship with The Kills' Jamie Hince for some time, repeating a mantra of "DON'T FUCK IT UP" in the hope that all will go well and she will never, ever return to the nicotine-stained side of Pete Doherty.

Well, it looks as though our words of love and support have worked their cosmic charms - it seems Hince and Moss, on hols in Amsterdam, are set to wed!

A source told The Sun: "They were looking very loved-up. Kate was so excited it looked like she had just accepted his proposal there and then. She was very happy.

"She came out giggling and seemed a little bit tipsy. Lots of fans were taking her picture on their mobile phones. She told them, 'I'm getting married'."

The source added: "One girl asked her when, and she said, 'Soon'."

Kate also reportedly talked about her marriage plans to a unnamed fashion journalist she met in the city's Cafe Tabac.

With every passing day we're starting to realise how much we actually love Celine Dion. A cursory glance through Defamer Australia's history will reveal as much, but she's just so lovably crazy we want to eat her up with a spoon!

And her first few moments in Australia (on tour) are no exception to the rule, getting about like Michael Jackson (though we're not sure whether it's to stop her from infecting everyone else, or vice versa):

Celine Dion brought back memories of the SARS days on the Gold Coast yesterday, appearing in a medical mask when leaving her luxury hotel with husband Rene Angelil and son Rene-Charles.

The French-Canadian warbler has angered fans by postponing her Brisbane concert, due to a throat infection and "irritated sinuses".

Speaking of which, some mid-afternoon power balladry for you, after the jump! Motorcycles! Lightning! Possibly excessive use of wind machines! Enjoy!

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If it feels like only yesterday that Footy Show alum and man about town Sam Newman was checking into hospital to treat his prostate cancer, well, it pretty much was - only three weeks after his surgery, Newman is heading back to the set of the Show.

We know it's AFL season now, and that as much as we find it largely odious, the Footy Show is really all about the Sam/Eddie/Trevor dynamic, but three weeks? After major surgery? Dude!

Nine yesterday said Newman was feeling much better and ready to take centre stage after missing the first two shows for the year.

The network is confident Newman's return will be long-term despite his need for follow-up treatment.

"He's feeling better and is up and mobile,'' a Nine spokeswoman said.

Come on, lads, if you only ever let someone put two fingers up the bum once in your lifetime, do it now!

Australian comedy is usually received in one of two ways by our cousins across the pond(s): either wholeheartedly (Dame Edna) or bemusedly before forward-thinking execs decide they can do better (Kath & Kim).

Hopefully the former will be the case when Chris Lilley's masterful Summer Heights High hits HBO as part of the uber-cable channel's 2008 comedy line-up.

Unsurprisingly, the ABC is thrilled to bits with the deal.

ABC TV's head of content creation Courtney Gibson said the broadcaster was over the moon.

"Mr G, Ja'mie and Jonah have been welcomed into the home of such immortals as Tony Soprano and Deadwood's Al Swearengen in the US, and the home of groundbreaking comedy in the UK," Ms Gibson said.

We're going with Joey Fatone as Jonah, Hayden Panettiere as Ja'mie, and Steve Carrell as Mr. G.

· We take three things from this video: One, Haitian Weather Guy is about the lowest-stress vocation on the planet. Two, some videos really do improve upon subsequent viewings. And three, if there's a Meaning of Life, Arthur knows it. [YouTube]
· K-Fed's loving father, forgiving ex, and capable role-model game is ridiculous. [In Touch]
· Tonight, two of our very favourite animated things—South Park and Canadian sci-fi fleshcore classic Heavy Metal—are to be combined into one, brainmeltingly awesome new thing. (One can only hope.) [Vulture]
· Cajun chef Paul Prudhomme was grazed by a bullet on a Louisiana golf course today, upon which he instantly started hemorrhaging gravy. [USA Today]
· The only bad thing about the gigantic piano house is the 40-foot-tall Liberace who tramples the village to come play it every full moon. [Weird Asia News via Thighmaster]

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While most of you heathens were watching The Hills and/or The New Adventures Of Two And A Half Men Who Met Your Mother on Monday night, your Uncle Grambo was plowing through the first two and a half hours of the new Frontline documentary, Bush's War. On an emotional level, it was a thoroughly exhausting experience — reliving those nightmarish days of September 2001 and the resulting six-plus years of what can only be described as another long national nightmare had precisely the opposite effect on my sleep patterns as a fistful of Ambien. That said, it deserves classification as essential viewing, regardless of your party affiliation. That said, this post is not about George Bush or politics, nor does it have anything to do with the subject matter of the two-part series that Variety describes as a "great historical drama." Rather, it's about how glorious it was to watch a news documentary that was specifically tailored to HDTV and why we're considering boycotting 60 Minutes until they make the switchover to hi-def programming.

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We're thrilled to report the extending of an olive branch in the East Coast-East Coast comedy wars that have devastated the industry since a Tina Fey quote in Reader's Digest appeared to openly question Jon Stewart's ability to earn sincere laughs, vs. politically aligned "clapter." Fey told cinemablend.com that the quote was taken out of context:

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Because we at Defamer love nothing more than to give hard-working Hollywood aspirants a nudge up the fame ladder, we now pass along exciting news from CourtneyFine.com, your one-stop resource for updates on the local "songstress and performer extraordinaire," and, as you'll soon learn, occasional dabbler in the true-crime-recreating arts:

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Michael, a beloved reader, sent the following clip in to us for Clip Of The Day and it freaked us out. Not only because it's, well, an amazing example of Japanese game show nuttiness - but because WE DID THIS VERY THING ON BOXING DAY WITH A BUNCH OF MATES*.

*Seriously. A packed recording studio full of drunken Melbourne chums spent hours - hours - fulfilling the deranged Christmas dream of Defamer Australia favourite Dan Luscombe from The Drones... we re-recorded We Are the World in its entirety, everyone taking on a different celebrity part, and the result was both horrific and amazing. If we ever get clearance from the motley crew involved (sadly, no Tommy Lee in sight), we'll put the audio up here one day. The memory of Dan Luscombe belting out "Fucken, we can't go ooooooooon..." haunts us to this day.

We also did Do They Know It's Christmas. It was a very intoxicated event.

The Daily Mail has some nice photos of Peter Andre sweating it out with a personal trainer in order to lose some pesky pounds which have covered his once chiseled six pack with a fine layer of flesh. Having recently read his autobiography (given to us as a birthday gift by our Associate Editor, THANKS CLEM), we know that Pete's gaining of pounds is a direct result of Jordan's demand he comfort eat with her during her pregnancy with son Junior, and we can only assume he dived head first into many plates of culinary crap once again when she was pregnant with their second child Princess Tiammii.

Of course, we don't think Peter looks too bad in the scheme of things, but the British media is sufficiently concerned about the issue to ask Jordan whether his newfound chunkiness has dampened the fires of lust in her loins in any way. Breathe a sigh of relief, romance lovers - it hasn't.

Wife Katie recently dismissed rumours that his ballooning weight has put her off him.

She told a newspaper: "That's ridiculous, bull**** stuff. I don't care what he looks like." But the glamour model admitted that he had been on a strick fitness regime for the last two weeks.

She said: "I love him for him. I still fancy him as much as I ever did, definitely."

Awww, wonderful.

This story has reminded us of how amazingly and hilariously rubbish Peter's autobiography is ("All About Us - My Story") and how we still mean to start popping up some of the best excerpts online. Let's just say there's a great passage involving one of his L.A girlfriends chasing him from the house with a baseball bat screaming "I GOT MOTHERFUCKERS IN THE HOOD!"

In a stunning development that could throw into jeopardy the jobs of millions of blue collar Americans working in the top-model-refining industry, Tyra Banks may have finally had it with the reality TV competition that effectively launched her star, OK! magazine reports. Things have reportedly gotten "so bad" on the set between Tyra and photo-shoot taskmaster Mr. Jay (who—little known fact—can control the weather by merely rolling back his eyeballs!) that the two "aren't speaking." Even more disturbing, Tyra "only wants to show up on judging day," waiting for the camera's red light to come on before phoning in trademark advice like, "There's a big difference between [wild-eyed facial expression] and [totally fierce facial expression]."

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Just when you thought it was safe to don ridiculous yellow glasses and advertise your shindigs on Le Spazz without fear of being confused for Narre Warren's finest, it emerges that Corey Worthington Delany is not only back in our papers, but making serious cash from his reputation as a fun time guy with impressive abilities to advertise suburban house parties through the magic of text messaging and social networking sites.

Forget about his 15 minutes of fame, notorious party pest Corey Worthington is set to go global, having signed a lucrative endorsement deal with one of the largest mobile phone companies in the UK.

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Harvey Weinstein's tough week didn't get any easier today, with his Marley family squabbles and Star Wars-geek travails cycling back around this morning to the Anthony Minghella tragedy that started it all. Except that film critic David Edelstein had more than what you might call a moment of clarity in his New York Magazine blog entry slamming Harvey for the filmmaker's artistic demise:

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Whoo boy, LAT, this does not look good. According to The Smoking Gun, the alleged FBI documents the newspaper relied upon in their bombshell report accusing Sean "Diddy-Puffy-Puff Daddy-Sean John-P.Diddy" Combs's associates of having carried out the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur were forged. The culprit? Incarcerated con man named James Sabatino, a portly wigga with a vivid imagination and a desperate need to inject himself by any means necessary into the great hip-hop events of the latter 20th Century. From The Smoking Gun's report:

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Mere days after MPAA mascot Dan Glickman and pals around town swore up one side and down the other that movies are a relatively inexpensive, recession-proof industry, a group of brass-balled fate tempters — including "the Retirement Systems of Alabama pension fund" (we can't make this up) — are betting that even $35 tickets wont scare off potential patrons of their planned luxury chain.

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After being subjected to 18 years worth of sweeping up the giant tufts of rogue body hair that accumulated in the shower drain each and every morning, Marsha Garces Williams has filed for divorce from her husband, the terrifyingly hirsute funnyman Robin Williams. Citing irreconcilable differences (the legal statute, not the 1984 Ryan O'Neal / Drew Barrymore vehicle), the (soon to be former) Mrs. Williams is seeking spousal support and custody of the pair's youngest daughter, Cody. While this is certainly sad news, we did discover one interesting tidbit about the pair in the report filed by ExtraTV.com (Must! Credit!).

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· En fuego producer Rob Thomas sells his third pilot of the season, this one to ABC. (He already sold them Cupid, and sold The CW the 90210 spinoff.) Based on a Kiwi show, Outrageous Fortune follows "matriarch of a family of criminals [who] decides it is time for her brood to go straight when her husband ends up in the clink for five years." Your move, Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas! [THR]· FremantleMedia is bringing Family Feud to primetime for the first time in its 30 year history, where it will air along with American Gladiators on NBC's "For The Love of All That is Holy, Just Pick Up A Book Already" summer programming block. [Variety]
· Elizabeth "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" Banks has been cast as the First Lady in Oliver Stone's Bush. Stop your snickering! [THR]

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We're thrilled with the reaction so far to Defamer's John Hughes Q&A Challenge -- or make that 99% thrilled, anyway, with a great outpouring of interest around the Web, some fabulous inquiries for our Reclusive Director Du Jour ("Was writing Weird Science the best two days of your life?") and, alas, a polite but firm response from his representative.

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As rumours that JC Chasez and Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford are doing the naked pretzel reach a fever pitch--certainly prodded along by our own high-level informant's eyewitness account of the two sharing a poolside cabana at the Roosevelt--the second-most-talented NSYNC member called into Kiss FM 104.7 today to deny, deny, deny. (It happens about mid-way through this audio.) The Hollyscoop girls helpfully transcribed the exchange, which we excerpt below:

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While we're generally for keeping all-around courtroom bore Brad Grey out of Hollywood's legal spotlight in the future, a source tells Defamer that the Paramount boss and his Viacom overlords could face mutiny from hedge-funders unhappy with the way their studio investment is shaking out. Specifically, we hear the money men behind Melrose Partners — which joined the 'Mount in 2004 under the Sherry Lansing/Jonathan Dolgen regime — may take legal action challenging the underperformance of its $231 million equity fund after Grey came aboard in early 2005.

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Denise Richards fling-survivor and two-time rehab graduate Richie Sambora experienced one of those nasty wake-up calls last night, stopped by Laguna cops shortly before 11:00 PM after swerving in a Black Hummer. "He failed numerous field sobriety tests and was detained for DUI. At the station Sambora opted to take a blood test rather than blow into a breathalyzer. Laguna Beach PD Sgt. Jason Kravetz [says], 'At this point there's no indication of drugs.'" Funny--we don't remember asking about drugs. We leave you now to spend some quiet time with Sambora's bemulleted mugshot, looking deep into those bloodshot eyes as you sing out to no one in particular, "Sometimes you tell the day/By the bottle that you drink/And times when you're all alone all you do is think."

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JFXOnline gives us the first glimpses from the set of Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell's next big screen foray, based on the beloved Sid and Marty Krofft Saturday morning sci-fi adventure. Originally conceived as a huge budget adventure comedy, the disappointing™ performance of Semi-Pro has led jittery Universal execs to cut some budgetary corners wherever possible. That means plans for spectacular soundstage sets and expensive CGI sequences will be replaced with location shooting, sending the actors and crew on an L.A. scavenger hunt that brought them to the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits (above), the terrariums of Santa Monica's Water Garden, and the Apple Store at the Grove, which stood in nicely for the Pylons and matrix tables.

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Until now, court shows went mostly unheralded by the TV producing establishment, despite their appellates delighting millions via the meting out of their own brand of sassy justice ladled with a generous helping of snappy catchphrases. But even in the realm of after-school, syndie-strip law, rights can be wronged, as organizers of the Daytime Emmys have just announced that court shows will finally be getting their own category:

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Resident Fox gossipmonger Roger Friedman outdid himself this morning with the "news" that romantically linked Stop-Loss co-stars Ryan Phillippe and Abbie Cornish are "apparently having a child." You wouldn't know it now, of course, with Friedman's allegation deleted from his copy without any note or citation from his editors at Fox News. Thank goodness for the quick-thinking eagle-eyes at The Huffington Post, who nabbed a screengrab of the offending passage you can spy after the jump.

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While we appreciate the earnest viral efforts of studio marketers on behalf of Cloverfield, The Dark Knight and even half-assed fare like Quarantine, there's a strangely revolting quality to the derisive, almost misogynist analogue throwback accompanying the new Apatow Assembly Line comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. So much so that a mad bomber is fighting off those Universal billboards and bus placards with a guerilla campaign that we can't determine is the real deal or just some second wave of the studio's low-concept offensive. Help us decide after the jump.

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