--It's official: Victoria Beckham has secured a deal with NBC and American Idol producer Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment for a reality series about her move from London to L.A. Six half-hour episodes are set to premiere this summer, NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly announced Wednesday. (I'll watch!)

--"It's very unlikely my leg is going to fly off, although it would be quite funny. I'll have a strap on which I wouldn't normally in every day life." --Heather Mills McCartney, on her stint on "Dancing with the Stars." (Whew. She said it would be funny so I won't feel badly if I laugh a little).

--A Florida appeals court helped clear the way Wednesday for Anna Nicole Smith to be buried in the Bahamas, saying evidence supports that it's what the former Playboy Playmate wanted.

--Vincent Pastore, who played a tough-guy mobster in the early years of "The Sopranos,' has dropped out of "Dancing With the Stars" after a week of training. At least this time he wasn't sent off to sleep with the fishes, the fate that befell his "Sopranos" character. The new cast includes Olympic skater Apolo Anton Ohno, boxer Laila Ali, former 'N Sync member Joey Fatone, country singer-actor Billy Ray Cyrus and Paul McCartney's estranged wife, Heather Mills. (Perhaps his name on the show rings true...)

--Robin Givens has a new man, and he loves to dance for her. Givens was spotted last Thursday night at Stereo with rapper Ginuwine and pals including Kanye West and Jermaine Dupri. Clubgoers got a show when, according to witnesses, Ginuwine "got up on Jermaine's table in the VIP section and started doing a sexy, slow dance for Robin, followed by a lap dance."

-- "I met with Ang Lee on that movie, I read 15 pages of the script and got a little creeped out. It was very graphic, descriptive - the spitting on the hand, getting ready to do the thing. I told Ang Lee, 'I like you, you're a talented guy, if you want to talk about it more...' Thankfully, he didn't." --Mark Wahlberg, on being considered for "Brokeback Mountain"

--The blonde madam who ran a stable of high-priced hookers has Los Angeles in a lather because she's naming names in her new autobiography - among them, superstar Bruce Willis and former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda. Jody "Babydol" Gibson was convicted in 2000 of operating a global prostitution ring, but prosecutors blacked out the names of famous alleged clients found in her phone books and records. Now, in "Secrets of a Hollywood Super Madam," out today from Corona Books, Gibson names celebrities she says patronized her "California Dreamin' " service, which operated in 16 states and in Europe, employed porn stars and Playboy models, and charged customers as much as $3,000, according to trial testimony.

--Bridget Moynahan - three months pregnant with her ex-boyfriend Tom Brady's baby - has the support of another woman who was dumped while she was expecting, Mary-Louise Parker. Moynahan and Parker grabbed breakfast yesterday at City Bakery and were "deep in conversation," a spy said. Brady ditched Moynahan in December - right around the time he found out she was pregnant - and immediately started dating Gisele Bundchen. Parker was dumped by Billy Crudup two years ago when she was eight months pregnant. Crudup immediately took up with Claire Danes.

--Will Paris serve jail time? (Ha. Yeah, right...)

--Djimon Hounsou is one amorous guy. Last week, the "Blood Diamond" star was all over Cameron Diaz. This week, he turned his attention on Kimora Lee Simmons. Hounsou and Simmons made out all night at Boulevard 3 in L.A. Tuesday during a Dom Perignon dinner for Forest Whitaker. The two, there to help celebrate Whitaker's Oscar win, ignored Oprah Winfrey, Mary J. Blige, Chris Tucker and Quincy Jones to grope each other, and left together. (Ewww...he can do much better than that!)

--Justin Timberlake and business partner Eytan Sugarman, who own Destino on First Avenue and Chi in Hollywood, are expanding their restaurant empire. Next month they'll launch Southern Hospitality on Second Avenue at 76th Street, right across from Brother Jimmy's. The eatery will feature Southern barbecue, a stage for live performances and a jukebox filled with Timberlake's favorite Southern anthems.

--Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in a custom-made gown next to her 20-year-old son following an "over the top" memorial service with a tightly controlled guest list, said a friend helping to organize the memorial. The memorial service, with about 300 guests at an undisclosed church, will feature large amounts of pink flowers, her favorite color, and singing from a well-known performer whose name organizers aren't ready to disclose, said the friend, Patrik Simpson of Beverly Hills, Calif. "It will be a very beautiful, Anna Nicole send-off," Simpson told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday night in the Bahamian capital of Nassau. "Of course it will be over the top because it's Anna Nicole." (But of course...)

Random Thought of the Day:
I am so glad they got rid of Katie Couric on "Today." Meredith Viera seems smart, sweet, and does good interviews (and thus far, seems to ask some of the tough questions). She and Matt seem to have a very friendly banter. It's a good fit. However, can someone PLEASE bring back Katie's stylist? My God! They make Meredith look like a boring frump every morning! Please--someone burn down all the Coldwater Creek and J. Jill stores in the NYC area so the folks at "Today" stop buying Meredith's clothes there!

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