--"That poor, pathetic man..." --Barbara Walters on The Donald (Is it me, or is this getting old?)

--Kanye West and Borat director Larry Charles have teamed up to develop a new series for cable TV network HBO. The as-yet-untitled project will focus on a day in the Grammy Award-winning rapper's life. Charles is a longtime producer and director of TV series Curb Your Enthusiasm and was also executive producer of Entourage for its first two seasons. His most recent film Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan recently earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Musical Or Comedy Motion Picture. Music producer-turned rapper West will serve as executive producer on the project.

--Two women are suing NFL star Junior Seau, claiming that the future Hall of Famer drunkenly called them "female-specific profanities" and tossed drinks on them during a bar confrontation last year.

--Singer and American Idol judge Paula Abdul is moving into feature films and will star in and produce a movie based on the popular Bratz line of fashion dolls. Adbul will play a major character in the live action film Bratz: The Movie and will serve as executive producer. She will also be involved in the film's casting, music, choreography and fashion. The film will follow four teenage girls from diverse backgrounds who long to be themselves and not fall victims to high school cliques. The movie will begin shooting next month and is scheduled for release in August. (Oh God...remember when she tried to act w/ Keanu in her Rush, Rush vid? Bad. Very, very bad.)

--Britney Spears’ stock has fallen so far that her stylist reportedly is trying to distance herself from the singer. Britt Bardo, whose clients include the likes of Kate Hudson, Jennifer Lopez and Eva Mendes, was overheard telling folks that she’s not responsible for the look of the “Oops, I Did It Again” crooner, according to In Touch Weekly. “Yes, I’ve done Britney Spears, but don’t blame me, okay?” Bardo said, reports the mag. “I make her up and she just takes everything off and does her own thing.” (She might want to call her manicurist, too...)

--Kelly Osbourne has revealed how she wants to bare all - as a Playboy covergirl. Rocker Ozzy's 22-year-old daughter has slimmed from a size 14 to a striking size 10. And she believes the iconic mag is the perfect place to show off her new trim figure. Kelly told Closer magazine: "I'd love to pose for Playboy. "I'd definitely go fully nude - there's no point doing it otherwise." (There goes breakfast...)

--Marcia Cross, who is expecting twins with husband Tom Mahoney in April, has been ordered to rest in bed, her publicist said Wednesday. "This is a precautionary measure only," spokesperson Heidi Slan tells the Associated Press.

--Halle Berry is reportedly pregnant. Halle is currently dating Canadian supermodel Gabriel Aubry. (God, that will be a hot child. He/she would give Shiloh a run for her money in the looks department.)

--Richard Gere supports hookers. The 57-year-old star whipped up a pep rally of 10,000 sex workers in Mumbai, India, this week, getting them to chant, "No condoms, no sex!" at an AIDS awareness event. Gere, who famously ran off with a call girl played by Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman," said: "Before, there was a total lack of knowledge among sex workers about HIV . . . Now there is a radical change. When sex workers speak of condoms as a norm, it is a powerful statement, it empowers them."

--Having trouble getting up in the morning? Try Meth Coffee.

--Justin's new romance? Scarlett. BWE asks, "Would They Be TimbJo? Or ScarTin? JustLett?"

--Pop star Britney Spears is dating 25-year-old male model and actor Isaac Cohen. The star was spotted sailing around Marina Del Rey, California over the weekend on a private powerboat with her new companion. Cohen bears a striking resemblance to Spears' estranged husband Kevin Federline and dresses in a similar style, favoring low-slung jeans and a kerchief on his head. The bikini-clad mother-of-two seemed to be enjoying herself during the excursion, and the two shared several intimate moments. Cohen's agent at LA Models, Brandi Lord, has confirmed the romance to People saying the couple's relationship began "recently...within the last month. He's got a great heart and a good family, and he was raised well. He's a gentleman." Lord insists Cohen isn't after the singer for her fame adding, "(He) is not a player. (He) is not out to get a name for himself." (Um, didn't she use to say the same things about K-Fed?)

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--The tension between "The View" creator Barbara Walters and co-host Rosie O'Donnell, sparked by O'Donnell's feud with Donald Trump, boiled over yesterday morning when the portly comic called Walters "a [bleeping] liar." According to spies, O'Donnell recoiled from Walters' touch and yelled, "You kept me in the newspapers this whole time!" Both "View" producer Bill Geddie and Walters tried to calm O'Donnell. Walters told her, "I did everything I could to squash the story" - prompting Rosie to scream, "You didn't call me for 10 goddamn days, and you didn't tell me what you were going to say on television!" (Catfight!)

--Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter Dave Matthews will guest star as a musical prodigy on the hit medical series House. The singer will play a savant and piano prodigy who comes under the care of Dr. Gregory House, played by British star Hugh Laurie. This isn't the first time Matthews has been linked to the show - his track Some Devil appeared in an episode in 2005. The 39-year-old has appeared in the feature film Because Of Winn-Dixie and will star in the upcoming movie Lake City with Oscar winner Sissy Spacek. Matthews' guest stint on House will air in March.

--X-Men 2 star Alan Cumming and commercial illustrator Grant Shaffer were married Sunday in a civil ceremony outside London, according to the rep for the Scottish-born actor. The couple's 140 guests, including Sir Ian McKellen, Geri Halliwell, Neve Campbell, Rufus Wainwright and Monica Lewinsky, boarded a boat in London and sailed down the Thames to Greenwich, where the ceremony was held at the 175-year-old Old Royal Naval College. (Monica Lewinksy? Huh?)

--Angelina Jolie insists she has different feelings towards each of her kids and feels especially close to her adopted children because they've already led such a hard life. The Oscar winner has two adopted children with Brad Pitt, Maddox and Zahara, as well as their biological daughter Shiloh, who was born in May. Jolie tells Elle magazine that she's more partial towards her adopted children, saying, "I think I feel so much more for Mad and Z because they're survivors, they came through so much. Shiloh seemed so privileged from the moment she was born. I have less inclination to feel for her... I met my other kids when they were six months old, they came with personality. A newborn really is this... yes, a blob! But now she's starting to have a personality... I'm conscious that I have to make sure I don't ignore her needs just because I think the others are more vulnerable."

--Dayna Devon, cohost of TV's Extra, and her husband, plastic surgeon Brent Moelleken, welcomed their second child, a boy, on Friday. Cole Brent Moelleken was born by cesarean section and weighed 8 lbs., 2 oz. He was delivered two weeks early because Devon had developed excessive amniotic fluid that might have been dangerous to the baby.

--Van Halen made a "jump" into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday along with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, R.E.M., the Ronettes and Patti Smith. (I guess both David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar will get to attend?)

--Anna Nicole Smith wants to make sure no one gets their hands on her assets. The former Playmate — who for years has been involved in a messy dispute over her late husband’s fortune — is looking to set up a dummy corporation so that the man who says he’s the father of her daughter can’t get any of the money she might inherit. “Now that a judge has ordered a paternity suit so that Larry Birkhead can determine if he is, indeed the father, Anna’s scared,” says a source. “Anna’s no legal eagle, but the idea of a dummy or shell corporation is something she learned in her fight over [her late husband] J. Howard Marshall’s estate. And, of course her lawyer [Howard K. Stern, the man Smith says is the baby’s father] explained it to her.”

--Did anyone watch the premiere of the Apprentice the other night? No? Neither did I. Neither did anyone, aparrently.

--“We are waiting for the gas to pass." --NYC Mayor Bloomberg

--The billionaire owner of 84 Lumber could have only one 84th birthday party, so Joe Hardy's children were determined to make it one to remember. Christina Aguilera sang "Happy Birthday" to Hardy, who turned 84 Sunday, and Bette Midler performed with an orchestra. Robin Williams was the after-dinner performer. (Well, that must have sucked...although, I would have opted for someone much less annoying than Robin Williams)

--The man who sank the Titanic has $200 million to float a new blockbuster. James Cameron has been tapped to direct the 20th Century Fox sci-fi actioner "Avatar," his first dramatic film in a decade. "Avatar," which will be shot in a new 3-D process, is the story of a wounded ex-Marine who, forced to settle and exploit a faraway planet, gets caught up in a battle for survival with its inhabitants. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana will star in the summer 2009 release, with visual effects to be handled by "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson's production house, Weta Digital. (I guess Aquaman wasn't a big enough blockbuster for him...hee hee...God, I can't wait until that show comes back on)

--Brit doesn't disappoint, and looks like total ass for the umteenth day in a row:

Doesn't she have some tacky, pleather purse that doesn't match to carry all that crap in her hand?

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--A man allegedly tried to extort $1.5 million from Oprah Winfrey by threatening to release taped telephone conversations that he claimed would hurt her reputation, according to a federal complaint. Keifer Bonvillain, 36, allegedly demanded that a Winfrey representative pay him the money in exchange for 12 hours of recorded telephone conversations he'd had with a Winfrey employee he met two years earlier at a party, according to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court. (Don't people know not to mess with the Big O? She'll destroy this guy.)

--Pluto may no longer be a planet, but it has a new claim to fame: "Plutoed" has been chosen 2006 Word of the Year by the American Dialect Society. The society defined "to pluto" as "to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when the General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union decided Pluto no longer met its definition of a planet." (What? I have heard ZERO people use that word...)

-- A nationwide talent search for dancers fleet-footed enough to back up Beyonce Knowles came to the pop diva's hometown as hundreds turned out to audition for 40 open slots. The would-be performers took turns Saturday moving through choreographed routines to such Beyonce hits as "Deja Vu," while cameras recorded their footwork and choreographer Frank Gaston studied their style. Houston was the third location in the cross-country search, following auditions in Atlanta and Los Angeles. After two more stops, in New York and Chicago, Gaston and Beyonce will review the tapes.

--Prison Break star Wentworth Miller has hit out at media reports questioning his sexuality, insisting he is straight. The 34-year-old star is still adjusting to life in the spotlight and the intense media scrutiny surrounding his personal life. He explains, "No, I'm not gay. I know these rumors are out there...I'm cool with the fact that they exist, I mean this is about fantasy. Certain people are going to have certain fantasies. If someone wants to imagine me with a woman, or a man or one of each, that's cool with me as long as you keep watching the show." (I'm a big Prison Break fan, and I could care less. New episodes start later this month!)

-- Fans of Muhammad Ali can send personal greetings to the boxing great on his 65th birthday next week. Well-wishers can leave a message through the Muhammad Ali Center's Web site or get a picture taken with a birthday banner at the center on Jan. 17. School classes and groups are being encouraged to send group photos with signs or banners expressing their regards. (Iceman...you going to leave a message?)

--Video footage showing tragic Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin dying from a stingray barb to the chest has been destroyed now it's no longer needed by investigators. The footage of Irwin's last moments on 4 September last year was used in a police report and coroner's investigation into his death, but the original copy has now been returned to widow Terri Irwin and all other copies have been destroyed. The tape, reportedly showing Irwin snorkeling above the stingray before it whipped its tail into him, had reportedly been the subject of a million dollar bidding war from several websites. Irwin's manager John Stainton said, "Anything to do with the day that he died, that film is not available." Michael Barnes, the Australian coroner investigating the case, insisted he'd taken "all possible steps to ensure something of such a personal and tragic nature did not fall into the wrong hands". Irwin's last program, Ocean's Deadliest, featuring footage shot in the week before Irwin's death, will be shown for the first time in the US on the Discovery Channel on January 21.

--Former “CHiPs” star Erik Estrada got into an expletive-laced shouting match with a man who called him Emilio Estevez amid the filming of a reality television series. (This show looks completely ridiculous, but I know I'll watch since it was filmed in Muncie, Indiana!)

--Kristin Cavallari was BONGO's girl in 2006, but they have dumped her for a fresh face for the new year. Vanessa Minnillo will be the IT girl of BONGO's Spring 2007 campaign.

--Angelina Jolie has attacked Madonna for adopting a child 'illegally'. She said the singer should never have visited an impoverished African country with the sole intention of choosing an infant. Her comments follow accusations that Madonna used her fame and money to speed the adoption of one-year- old David Banda late last year.

--Beyonce's mom may have gotten a recommendation from her boyfriend, Jay-Z, in landing her latest venture. The hip-hop mogul is one of the owners of the Brook lyn-bound New Jersey Nets. Deréon, the junior apparel collection from House of Deréon, which is designed by Beyoncé's mom, Tina Knowles, was just named official sponsor of the Nets Dancers, who entertain on the hardwood at halftime and timeouts. "The Nets Dancers are such a fun part of going to the games," said Tina. "We are thrilled to be able to provide Deréon wardrobe for these extremely talented young women."

--Domenico Dolce (of Dolce and Gabbana) does not pick up men - he has them selected and brought to him. The venerable designer - one half of the Dolce & Gabbana clothing empire - was at Miami hot spot Snatch the other night with several friends and one special employee whose assignment was "to get hot guys in the club to go to his table," giggled our spy. "Domenico would point at a guy, and his employee would go bring the man over. It was extremely effective." Next to the table of giddy men was Kevin Connolly with Anna Anisimova and a table headed by "Laguna Beach" hottie Kristin Cavallari - who was extremely annoyed when she was presented with a bill at the end of the night. "She rolled her eyes and made the people she came with pay for it - and didn't contribute anything."

--Just a day after having an appendectomy, Lindsay Lohan steps out at a Hollywood club on Friday night.

God forbid she miss a second of partying!

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--At 44, Demi Moore has three teenage daughters, a much-younger husband and a thriving comeback career – so you'd think she has her hands full. But she wants more kids. "Most definitely," she tells Vanity Fair when asked whether she wants children with Ashton Kutcher, 28.

--Mario Lopez will host this year's Miss America pageant in Las Vegas, event organizers said Wednesday. "I'm honored. I think it's going to be great," Lopez told The Associated Press from Los Angeles prior to the announcement by Country Music Television Inc.'s officials in Nashville The pageant will air Jan. 29 from the Aladdin Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Why do I have a feeling he'll be hitting on every chick backstage?

--Click here to take a view at some of the world's stupidest tattoos.

--Beyonce won't be getting an Oscar for Best Song. And, from what I've been reading, won't come near a Best Actress Oscar either.

--"Stop biting my nails. Just to take care of me more." --Britney Spears, on her New Year's resolutions.

--Justin and Cameron are dunzo.

--Beloved teen soap The O.C. has been canceled due to falling ratings following actress Mischa Barton's decision to quit the show. The once hit series joins former Will & Grace star Megan Mullally's new chat show as the first TV casualties of the new year in America. Mullally's much-criticized show will end immediately, while The O.C. will see out its current season. The final episode of the series will air on February 22. In a statement released yesterday, The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz said, "It has been an amazing experience and a great run. For a certain audience, at a certain time, The O.C. has meant something. For that we are grateful."

--Barack Obama has tried cocaine. Zzzz...

--Veteran US soap star Drake Hogestyn has filed a restraining order against a man who attacked him in his California home. The actor, who has played John Black on daytime soap Days Of Our Lives for over 20 years, claims Carl Raymond Cheney assaulted him and "physically tried to exorcise the devil from me." In court papers, obtained by website Tmz.com, Hogestyn reveals he was relaxing at home with his family when Oregon native Cheney found his way onto his property and charged at the actor's daughter. Hogestyn reveals Cheney was carrying a Bible and screaming, "Where is he? I will cast him out!" The actor adds Cheney was "calling me by my stage name... recalling past storylines, especially the demonic possession of several years past. But more important, he thought I was dead, because the show that aired on Friday 12.29.06 left my character John Black shot and presumed dead." Hogestyn spent 10 minutes grappling with Cheney until he and his 25-year-old son Ben were able to restrain him and call the police. When WENN went to press, Cheney was in custody at the Los Angeles County Jail on $150,000 bail. Ha! I remember the storyline when he and Marlena were possessed! Truly high-caliber TV!

--Former"That '70s Show" star Wilmer Valderrama can add "fashion designer" to his growing list of side gigs. DNR reports the host of "Yo Momma" and Miami club parties is "setting his sights on the young men's fashion market." Valderrama plans to launch a "Latino-inspired" men's label called Calavena this year.

--Angelina Jolie has been immortalized as the Virgin Mary in a shocking new painting. The actress is portrayed as the mother of God while her adopted children Maddox and Zahara and daughter Shiloh are her cherubs. The painting is on display at the Miami Art Fair. People have way too much time on their hands...

--It's nothing but love for Lindsay Lohan and her Georgia Rule costar Jane Fonda and director Garry Marshall on the film's Los Angeles set recently, where the three got together to celebrate Fonda's 69th birthday.

I love how she's covering up L.Lo's ta-ta's.

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Less than one hour into the New Year, pop-princess Britney Spears collapsed at the PURE nightclub inside Caesars Palace. Just 50 minutes earlier, she had hosted two countdowns to usher in the New Year - one inside the VIP section at the hip hot nightspot and a 2nd up on the club's upper outdoor terrace overlooking the famed Vegas Strip where fireworks were shot off from seven casino-hotel rooftops. Mystery now surrounds Britney's collapse early this morning. She had been seated on a VIP tented-cabana bed overlooking the dance floor at 12:50AM talking with one of her male dancers. She intimated she wanted to leave and as she stood up, "she went into a dead faint and just fell right to the floor."

Brit and her handlers are now saying she wasn't drunk or high, "she was just tired." (Like anyone buys that crap).

--Tiger Woods and his wife, Elin Nordegren, are expecting their first child together.

--In addition to making out with Nick Lachey, Vanessa Minnillo dropped the "F-bomb" during MTV's New Year's Eve broadcast. Click here to watch.

--Kate Moss and Pete Doherty are set to have an official wedding this month after reports that they have secretly "married" in a Buddhist ceremony on a beach in Thailand. (I have a feeling they'll have a "white wedding," but I'm not talking about th dress...)

--Oprah Winfrey is getting ready to open the $40 million school she paid to have built in South Africa – in grand Oprah style. The 22-acre Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in the town of Henly-on-Klip is holding its big opening this week. Reportedly due to attend the ceremonies are John Travolta, Stevie Wonder, Nelson Mandela and Angelina Jolie, according to Newsweek magazine.

-- George Lucas said Friday that filming of the long-awaited "Indiana Jones" movie will begin next year. Harrison Ford, who appeared in the three earlier flicks, the last one coming in 1989, is set to star again. Lucas said he and Steven Spielberg recently finalized the script for the film. (Hmmm...I'm a little skeptical). "It's going to be fantastic. It's going to be the best one yet," the 62-year-old filmmaker said during a break from preparing for his duties as grand marshal of Monday's Rose Parade.

--Kristin Cavallari is making her ex, Brody Jenner, jealous while on her Miami vacation. The Laguna Beach babe has been splashing around with super hot Nick Zano. They supposedly stayed holed up in their suite (complete with a bathtub fit for two) all day and then went skinny-dipping in the pool. Sources said Zano and Cavallari stopped by Nobu at the Shore Club for dinner, and were seated next to Jenner, who was dining with on-again couple Wilmer Valderrama and Mandy Moore. "Brody had that 'caught in the headlights' look," said a spy.


--Donald Trump just won an award, but he's not going to like it. The developer was named "Most Annoying Money Personality" in a poll of AOL's Money & Finance users, beating runners-up Suze Orman, Jim Cramer and Mark Cuban. The site said, "His pricey Learning Annex lectures were more annoying than insightful." AOL also blasted his "blatant comb-over." Paris Hilton got the nod for "most overpaid celebrity" followed by Tom Cruise, Oprah Winfrey and Britney Spears.

--Wilmer Valderrama and Mandy Moore, 22, appear to be Young Hollywood's newest — and hottest — rebound couple! The pair, who split in the winter of 2001 after dating for 18 months, were spotted looking very much like a couple in heat, at Miami's Prive nightclub on Thursday night. "Wilmer and Mandy arrived together," a source tells Star, "but they were careful not to be photographed together. Nonetheless, Wilmer was doting on Mandy the whole time, and they were very close to each other the whole night. She was dressed casually with her hair in a ponytail and hoodie sweatshirt." (Booo. She's adorable, has her shit together, and he's a manwhore).

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