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We recently told you about Paris Hilton’s special penal-system treatment, from getting her sentence reduced in half for “good behavior” to going to a special jail that houses high-profile people (as well as employees). Well, now her future cell mate, who’s in for reckless driving, has been hand-picked to be someone unlikely to cash in on the experience.

So, I really don’t understand all of this special treatment. She broke the law like the common man. Why shouldn’t she take the same punishment? If someone can cash in on sharing their cell with her (though I don’t know how they would), that’s one of the consequences of her actions. This is definitely not teaching her a lesson. Well, maybe it is. The same lesson she’s learned her whole life…that things are different for people of privilege.

They are making her time in jail relatively easy. I’m not sure why she’s continuing to put on a big song and dance about her upcoming suffering. From publicly finding God to reportedly starving herself, I think she’s being a little dramatic.

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American Idol winner Jordin Sparks “looks up to” Sanjaya Malakar. She said in an interview,

He had so much guts. He had so much strength. He got a lot of criticism, but for him to go out on that stage and hold his head high … I really look up to him for that. He’s just an amazing kid.”

“The point of the show … is to keep who you like, who you want to see the next week. Sanjaya gave that to the people.”

I’m guessing that this is just a PC reply to the interviewer’s question, “What do you think of Sanjaya?”. And someone should tell her what was going on during the Sanjaya movement. Sanjaya wasn’t necessarily on for so long because people were exercising their right to keep who they like on the show. Instead there were forces like votefortheworst.com and Howard Stern interested in making a joke out of the whole thing.

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Reportedly, Jennifer Aniston was seen cozying up to a new guy last weekend at One Pico in the Shutter’s Hotel in Santa Monica. People reports,

At 8 p.m. the pair slipped into the beachfront eatery with Aniston’s man gently rubbing her back as they waited for a table.

“For the next three hours the duo talked by candlelight over a bottle of San Pellegrino, leaning in close and, at one point, even holding hands across the table.

“…he had the actress’s undivided attention.”

No doubt if this develops into something, she’ll deny it vehemently the way she did with her relationship to Vince Vaughn, or she’ll pull the old “I don’t talk about my personal life” business. So don’t go on talk shows, you dope!

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Country-singer Keith Urban showed up on the set of wife Nicole Kidman’s new film Australia on the northwest coast of the continent and wasn’t recognized by a female security guard. He was seen “pleading” with her, and she reportedly told him to “shove off and get a life”. Finally she called her boss and said, “There’s some bloke here named Keith Urban (who) wants to get on the set.” Her boss reportedly ran to the gate to personally escort Urban in. No word on the status of this stupid girl’s job, but I’m guessing she doesn’t have one anymore.

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So you can’t make the American Idol tour because you live in Alaska or because you can’t afford the $70 ticket prices, or you’re just protesting it because Sanjaya is going to be there? Don’t worry, you’ll have a chance to see the kids again on the Fourth of July live on NBC. Winner Jordin Sparks and contestants Blake Lewis and Melinda Doolittle will be performing on the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular. The fun starts at 9PM, and millions of crazy fans just like you will be skipping their local fireworks show to stay in front of the boob tube. Corporate America is genius!

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Bobby Brown is back on the dating scene, and he’s dating a long-time friend of ex Whitney Houston, Alicia Etheridge (pictured center, with Macy Gray and Bobby). They were seen kissing in the back of a truck (how romantic) before Bobby’s show in New York on Saturday where he attempted to sing classic hits like “My Prerogative” and “Every Little Step” (he had trouble remembering the words). The couple then moved on to a nightclub where they continued to make out until 3AM.

Etheridge, who is the former president of Macy Gray’s M.Gray Music Academy, had better watch out for Whitney’s crack binges. That woman is terrifying!

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Like a hungry mosquito buzzing in your ear, Britney Spears’ ex, Kevin Federline, will not go away. He’s infiltrating the film industry now, and I’m angry that there’s going to be a chance that when I go to a movie, that loser’s going to appear on screen. I’m not even talking a about a terribly awful comedy which would be expected, but a real movie!

The film is Night Watch, which will star Matrix star Keanu Reeves, Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker, and House’s Hugh Laurie. IMDB.com bills it as a crime/drama/thriller with Reeves playing an alcoholic ex-LAPD cop who’s lost his wife and is framed for a murder by his former mentor (Whitaker).

K-Fed will have a “small but notable” role. It will be too big for me, and notable is no good for K-Fed who should be beginning his descent into obscurity.

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Britney Spears started the craze when her mother, Lynne Spears, was in a California hospital over Mother’s Day with pneumonia. Now Nicole Richie is following suit. This new trend I’m referring to is refusing to visit your own mother in the hospital.

Nicole’s adoptive mother, Brenda Harvey-Richie, was in the hospital getting a hysterectomy, and reportedly, Nicole has not bothered to visit her. “Insiders” say that “the two have not been getting along lately” and it may even be driving Nicole to therapy.

You can bet that the tension stems from Brenda trying to feed Nicole a grilled cheese sandwich. And whatever gets that skeleton to therapy is fine in my book! Oh, so many mommy issues, so little time!

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To some people’s dismay, Lindsay Lohan’s career doesn’t seem to be crumbling yet. She was due to start filming Poor Things when she crashed her car and had to go off to rehab at Promises. People were doubting whether her career would ever recover, but she seems to have one person on her side: Oscar-winner Shirley Maclaine. Along with Olympia Dukakis and Rosario Dawson, Maclaine is starring in Poor Things as well as producing it with Rob Hickman. They released a statement showing their support to Lohan:

In the spirit of helping Lindsay Lohan and her rehabilitation, we have been asked by Lindsay to comply with her wishes to continue working on ‘Poor Things’. We are trying to rearrange the shooting schedule to facilitate her working at the end of the shoot to coincide with the completion of her rehabilitation. We wish her love and the blending of mind, body and spirit.”

Lohan should thank her lucky stars that they are going to work with her. Hopefully Maclaine will give her some spiritual counseling on the set, as she needs help from any and all angles (minus one certain celebrity cult).

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Lovable Black Sabbath rocker Ozzy Osbourne was all set to sing on the finale of American Idol, but no one told him that he’d be singing with Sanjaya Malakar, whom he calls “a hairstyle-challenged idiot”. He canceled at the last minute when he found out. A source told Page Six that “Ozzie said he didn’t want to be onstage with that idiot.”

I blame his manager and wife Sharon for conveniently neglecting to tell him. She thought she’d get away with pimping him out again, but this time he put his foot down to avoid being a laughing-stock. Instead Steve Perry from Aerosmith was.

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I thought Ryder Robinson looked way too feminine, but look at this freakshow Celine Dion has created. Yes, that’s a boy! 6-year-old Rene-Charles looks just about ready for his first training bra.

Celine tells Hello! that she’s moving to Florida (Florida?) after the Vegas gig finishes in December, and she hasn’t ruled out having more kids. She says, “My mother had me at 41; I’m sure I could do the same.” She’s now 39, but isn’t her Santa-Claus husband about 90 already? Maybe they will have a girl this time and turn her into a butch.

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Dancing with the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy talked to People about his day on the View last Wednesday when all hell broke loose. He was there with dance partner Laila Ali and fellow contestants Joey Fatone and Kym Johnson.

First off they were warned that the show sometimes gets intense. Isn’t that a little disconcerting to guests? Come on, you go on a talk show for fun and games, not for intensity. I’m sure over at Regis and Kelly the only warning guests get is about touching Kelly. Then it did get intense. Chmerkovskiy said,

At first everyone was sort of laughing, [like,] ‘See, I told you it gets intense.’ Then it was like, Okay maybe it’s one of those very intense ones. But people were still giggling. But then it became a fight between Rosie and Elisabeth.

“It was like a domestic dispute, like relatives fighting. We came to their house and we were witnessing something a little embarrassing. It was really uncomfortable.”

Alicia Silverstone was in the green room along with the Dancing folks and had to go on immediately after the break, unhappily. Chmerkovskiy told People,

She was like, ‘I don’t want to go on now.’ She had one of those hyperventilating moments where she was like, ‘Okay, I’m really nervous.’ ”

When she came out she hugged everyone but Elizabeth, and the show did go on. Luckily the dancers were able to strut their stuff without incident. Little did we know we wouldn’t see Rosie anymore.

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There was a bidding war at Cannes for the rights to the book Diana and the Paparazzi, and producer Quentin Reynolds hopes to nab it, cast Keira Knightley, and create the next Queen. He said,

Already the word in Hollywood is ‘get Knightley’. It’s a story that has everything: pathos, tragedy, comedy, adventure…and Princess Diana.

“For every pound The Queen makes, a film about Diana will make ten.”

I’m not sure about that. Diana is still a touchy subject, and any film will have to proceed with caution.

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Frasier’s David Hyde Pierce is out of the closet somewhat. Normally quiet about his personal life, in an AP article on CNN.com, his “partner” Brian Hargrove is referred to, but buried a few paragraphs down.

He worked at Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, Shakespeare in the Park and a lot of regional theaters such as the Guthrie in Minneapolis, Chicago’s Goodman and Long Wharf in New Haven, Conn. Pierce got to Los Angeles in the early 1990s when his partner, actor-writer-producer Brian Hargrove, wanted to write for television.”

AfterElton.com contacted Pierce’s representation, who confirmed that Hargrove is Pierce’s life partner. AfterElton is also wondering if that Out magazine article we told you about had anything to do with forcing Pierce out. I attribute it to one simple thing: the Broadway crowd. Hanging around with those Spamalot people is enough to make anyone feel comfortable being gay. Pierce is now appearing in Curtains, for which he’s nominated for a Tony.

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Could emaciated Nicole Richie be pregnant? That’s what the National Enquirer is implying on its cover as it talks about the ultra-thin in Hollywood. It all stems from that barefoot grocery shopping picture in which she’s anorexic looking, but she still has a little belly. Does this necessarily mean that she’s pregnant? Don’t they remember all of those malnourished African kids Sally Struthers used to parade around? They had bellies just like this. I doubt that she’s pregnant, and if she is, I don’t think her little body will be able to handle it for very long.

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