P. Diddy is about to change his name again.

The hip-hop mogul - real name Sean Combs - has revealed he is planning to add a new moniker to his list of aliases. Diddy, who is also known as Puff Daddy and Puffy, told Us Weekly magazine: "I'm about to change it again Why? Because I can".

The star claims he wants a new identity because he is getting bored with the name P. Diddy told Britain's BBC Radio 1: "You'll be seeing another side of me I'm going back to more of the days when there was true rock 'n' roll stars. "I will be playing a character, there will be something a little eccentric, a little bit different, something we'll be able to have fun with, something I think that's missing in music right now."

The rapper also admits the album will be more up-tempo than his previous music. He added: "It definitely has a very up-tempo musical vibe It's not one of those albums where you just talk about what I'm going through."

--I know I have the most creative readers in the world, so why not submit your entry for Diddy's new name in the comments. I'll narrow the list, and we'll have a vote in a few days.

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And Jessica Simpson's creepy dad speaks out:

Jessica Simpson's dad says that his daughter and her hubby Nick Lachey have hit some rough patches in their marriage – but that rumors of a split are dead wrong.

Joe Simpson tells People that in fact Jessica and Nick's marriage is much like his own. "Do they fight? Hell yes, they fight. Have there been moments when Nick has wanted to leave Jessica or Jess has wanted to leave Nick? Absolutely," Simpson says.

But he's quick to add that the squabbles are not a sign of major trouble in the relationship. "(It's the) same with me and my wife. If fighting is a sign of divorce, then we're all going to get divorced. My wife and I have been married 27 years. We've been at the edge of divorce for 26 of them."

The Simpsons and the Lacheys have a secret for solving their differences, he says. "We stick together. So we laugh together. We cry together. We drink together."

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The New York Daily News reports that James Gandolfini got so upset after flubbing a line on the set of The Sopranos last week that he put his fist through a plate-glass window.

An eyewitness at the studio in Long Island City reportedly chatted with Steppin' Out magazine's Chaunce Hayden about the incident, relating that "the actor got increasingly agitated and threw a temper tantrum." The drama escalated when Gandolfini's hand began swelling and the crew feared that production might have to be shut down. Like Soprano, Gandolfini apparently cools off quickly. An HBO rep told the Daily News, "His hand is fine. He's on the set today and in a great mood."

Gandolfini's behavior has not gone unnoticed by the cast and crew, whose lives could have been disrupted if the actor's injuries were serious enough to shut down the set. "Everyone on the set is very upset over Gandolfini's infantile tantrum," said a tattler. "His stupidity could cost everyone their paychecks. Many people could soon be out of work for a long while because he acts like an infant."

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L.A. party monster Mitch Mortaza's success with the ladies is proof that simply identifying yourself as a "producer" in Tinseltown works wonders.

Mortaza, 31, whose only credits are as executive producer of the Lingerie Bowl — a pay-per-view tackle football game featuring models, shoulder pads and lingerie for viewers bored by the official Super Bowl halftime show — has been burning up the Left Coast club scene with Lindsay Lohan.

The unlikely duo were thisclose last week at Cabana Club, where a source says they had a little tiff about Mortaza getting cozy with Lohan's love rival, Ashlee Simpson, at the club a week before.

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Pam Says...

She and Tommy are NOT getting married. Click here to read her blog.

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Prosecutors narrowed the timeframe in which they allege singer R. Kelly was videotaped engaging in sex acts with an underage girl, but defense attorneys say it's still too broad.

The new time span announced Wednesday still covers nearly three years - January 1998 to October 2000. Defense attorney Ed Genson says prosecutors need to narrow that to two days or the indictment should be dismissed. Kelly was arrested in 2002 and has pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of child pornography.

Judge Vincent Gaughan last month agreed that the prosecution's timeframe was overly broad, so prosecutors reinterviewed witnesses and re-examined the tape, which includes commercials on a television in the background. They cut 18 months off their original timeframe of November 1997 to February 2002.
"Hopefully, this will clarify the issue and we can move on," said Assistant State's Attorney Robert Heilingoetter. The case has already dragged out for three years.

Three witnesses also testified about the videotape Wednesday, including a woman who said she was a longtime friend of the female allegedly seen on the tape with Kelly. Simha Jamison, 21, of Oak Park, said she recognized her friend because they both had the same hairstyle at the time. She said the girl was about 14 then. We got that haircut in 8th grade," Jamison testified.

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Courteney Cox wants to reunite with her former Friends co-stars for a Thanksgiving special of the smash hit comedy series.

The brunette misses the show desperately, and even has clear ideas about how the characters would have evolved - 18 months after the last ever show aired. She tells the New York Daily News, "I grew up on that show. Monidca has done nothing but give to me - the people I've met, the experiences I've had, the money I've earned, the joy, the laughter. "I can see us coming back together to do something like a Thanksgiving show.

"Monica and Chandler would come in from the country with their two kids, who are a couple of years old now. "I think their story is continuing, even if we're not watching. I think they see each other every Thanksgiving."

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Coldplay star Chris Martin and his wife Gwyneth Paltrow teamed up with designer Stella Mccartney to poke fun at famous pal Madonna .

Madonna invited her famous chums to her Ashcombe Manor home in rural England to celebrate her fourth wedding anniversary with director Guy Ritchie and asked them all to perform a song, a poem or a short acting performance. Martin and his wife rewrote the lyrics to American Life and renamed it American Wife - and performed it in the Ritchies' living room.

Madonna recalls, "Gwyneth did fantastic rap and Stella sang background vocals and, well, Chris played the piano." Another musical interlude came when Sting performed on a lute and Madonna herself performed a scene from Restoration play The Town Wench Or Chastity Rewarded.

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Tyra Banks, fabulously successful supermodel and UPN reality show host, wants to make it big as the new Oprah.

And the real Oprah Winfrey, the reigning Daytime Talk Queen, has already told her that she has a good shot at being the next big talk show host, despite the trail of Jane Pauleys and Marilu Henners in her wake. "Oprah told me my life is going to totally change," Banks said here to a gathering of TV critics previewing the new fall shows. "She's like, 'You think you're famous as a supermodel? Try being a daytime talk show host on TV every single day when people really feel like they know you and really feel like you're changing their lives.' "

Well, that remains to be seen, when The Tyra Banks Show debuts in September. The 31-year-old Banks says the goal of her syndicated show is to inspire young women. The show will be more Oprah than Ellen. "I'm really trying to reach women of my generation — women 25-to-35," she says. "The show's going to be a lot about self-empowerment, taking control of one's actions. I think young girls will get a lot out of that."

Here are five reasons why Banks thinks she can be mini-Oprah.

1. She can relate to real people.

2. She's not afraid of being seen without makeup.

3. She'll know how to talk to celebrities.

4. She's hasn't failed much professionally.

5. Oprah said she could do it.

--Um, don't think so, Tyra. I saw you do the pre-Oscar red carpet arrivals show once, and you were terrible. Not everyone should be called, "Girlfriend," and it's not cool to say "You go girl," to everyone.

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Gisele Bundchen is gorgeous, but is there anything going on inside that pretty head of hers?

Elite Models founder John Casablancas thinks not. He tells Complex magazine that while Bundchen is "the most beautiful model today, I hate to say it because she has nothing to say from an intellectual point of view. No contribution to make to the human cause. She is an empty shell, one big void as a person. But as a model she is exciting and interesting."

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Which Stars Might Have Surgical Scars?

Who has had plastic surgery? Who has talked about it? And who is just fooling him- or herself into thinking no one notices you could bounce a quarter off that tightly stretched cheek flesh?

Think you know? Are you ready to find out? Then take the quiz and face the facts!

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Fearing that a sex tape he made with a Playboy Playmate would be offered for sale, Colin Farrell filed a lawsuit against his former paramour, claiming that the woman was scheming to distribute the racy tape with the help of some online porn experts.

Click here for an excerpt of the Los Angeles Superior Court complaint, where the Irish actor, 29, charges that Nicole Narain is seeking to improperly benefit from the video of their taped tryst, which the couple filmed more than two years ago and agreed would remain "strictly private and confidential."

Instead, Farrell alleges, Narain has recently taken steps to market the film with the assistance of tabloid broker David Hans Schmidt and Paul Nash, marketing director for an Internet porn outfit. Along with seeking unspecified damages, Farrell wants a court order barring the 30-year-old Narain, who was Playboy's Miss January 2002, and her cohorts from selling the XXX production.

Via The Smoking Gun.

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Poor Estelle:

Former "Golden Girls" star Rue McClanahan's career continues to soar, as the sassy actress is currently starring on Broadway in Wicked and has a Hallmark TV movie, "Back To You & Me," airing this Saturday, July 23.

However, she filled ET in on the tragic state of her former "Golden Girls" co-star Estelle Getty, who suffers from dementia, and how she's doing.

"Not well at all, not well at all," Rue told ET. "Estelle doesn't know anything about having done a show called 'Golden Girls.' She doesn't recognize any of us; doesn't recognize us in person and doesn't recognize us over the phone. And she can't really carry on a conversation anymore."

"She's got the same disease, I was told, that Dudley Moore died of," says Rue. "I don't know what it's called. It's not Alzheimer's, and it's not Lou Gehrig's, and it's not Parkinson's. You can't think anymore."

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James Doohan, who played engineer Montgomery Scott, the scrappy Scotsman who repeatedly gave the Starship Enterprise "all she's got" in the original "Star Trek" TV series and motion pictures, died Wednesday. He was 85.

Almost every week, the frazzled Scott was asked to perform an engineering miracle with the warp drive, shields or phasers to save the ship from certain death at the hands of Romulans, Klingons or other assorted aliens.

Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. at his Redmond, Wash., home with his wife of 31 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease, he said.

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Anna Nicole Smith continues to live up to her reputation as a party girl.

The former reality-TV star stunned crowds with her outrageous behavior in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina recently. “She entered a wet T-shirt contest at a club called Freaky Tiki and exposed herself and got into a loud fight with some guy everyone says is her boyfriend,” a source says.

Fans were buzzing about Anna’s antics on her Web site. “I just want to tell all y'all out there in Anna land that all this stuff is true because I saw . . . it with my own 2 eyes!!!!!!!!” one person posted. “She is there with her boyfriend and his friends and family. She was wandering aimlessly around [a] house looking for [pills]. Her boyfriend kept telling her to quit.”

“What surprised me is she was slamming shots after she took [some “nerve pills,”] according to another poster. “Then she continued drinking and by night’s end the boyfriend, (he said his name was Larry) tried to calm her down she smacked him in the face and was kissing on girls and dry humping some old man on his lap who she left with but not without help from her attorney Howard [K. Stern] who had to hold her up and went wagging behind her like a puppy dog, with in fact Anna's puppy dog in his arms.”

The alleged boyfriend was apparently Larry Birkhead, who was wearing a T-shirt that declared: “I love my girlfriend.” Smith, in October, told The Louisville Courier Journal “Larry keeps me occupied so I don't have to worry about being lonely anymore.”

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Recognize this guy? Rehab has clearly done wonders for Jack Osbourne.

And, in case you've forgotten, here's a before shot for you:

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Very funny:

Hotel heiress Paris Hilton was left red-faced Sunday night after a car valet refused to clean her Land Rover because it was too messy.

The Simple Life star drove her beloved vehicle to a drive-in car clean service in Beverly Hills, California but was turned away because the company is not allowed to touch personal items, and Hilton's car was full of underwear, phones and bags.

A worker tells British newspaper the Daily Record, "Her car was jam-packed full of junk - personal stuff." "There must have been at least 100 magazines, but more shocking than that, make-up, cellphones, handbags and clothes, including a lot of underwear." "We had to turn her away because it's company policy not to touch that kind of stuff."

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Clear the clothes racks: Ryan Seacrest is joining the label brigade.

The 30-year-old American Idol host, who says he's always had a taste for fashion, is now offering his own line of men's and women's T's, tanks, distressed polos shirts as well as sweaters, reports USA Today.

Seacrest credits the look of his R Line shirts, which he describes as a blend of "Hollywood, music, pop culture and humor," to his sister Meredith, a publicist for Entertainment Tonight; ex-girlfriend Shana Wall; and his mother, Connie, who once attended the Atlanta Fashion Institute. Prices for items range from $34 to $84.

--He's such a massive tool, I just can't imagine that his designs be good.

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Al Pacino, 65, is said to be romancing "Charmed" actress Rose McGowan, 31.

A spy tells Us Weekly that McGowan, whose first date with Pacino was at Mortons in L.A., "thought he was too old for her at first, but . . . Al won her over."

Pacino is no stranger to beguiling much-younger Hollywood hotties. A few weeks ago, he went on a date with newly single former supermodel Elle Macpherson and reportedly hooked up with Winona Ryder several years ago.

--After dating Marilyn Manson, I would think anyone would be a step up.

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Sienna Miller's mum says she doesn't know if her daughter will take back cheating fiance Jude Law. The actress has been spotted without her engagement ring on as shamed Jude desperately tries to woo her back after the affair with his children's nanny.

And Josephine Miller has revealed that Sienna has been "too angry" to cry since the story broke. Ex-model Josephine said: "It is anger and betrayal. "Not in a million years would we have suspected that he would have done that. "I can't comment on whether they will stay together. The least said the quicker it might be mended. "She is a trooper, my Sienna - she has always been very strong."

A pal of Jude said he is inconsolable. "It is tearing him apart and the worst thing is he knows he only has himself to blame," the pal added.

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