1. He just didn’t measure up… Nicky Hilton has split from her beau of two years, Entourage star Kevin Connolly. A Hilton pal tells Us Weekly Nicky “dumped” Kevin after she suspected he cheated on her. And we thought it would last, really.
2. He’s fed up and he isn’t going to take it anymore… “I’d gladly get into the whole cage-rage s**t with him and just scream at him over and over again, ‘You are not black!’ I might even b*tch-slap him a bit as well.” That’s Jack Osbourne raggin’ on Aaron Carter. Jack says he loathes the show House of Carters and star Aaron, a “skinny little white guy from Florida who acts like a big shot, black hip-hop guy from Compton.” Back up…skinny?
3. But really, I’m just a tomboy… The increasingly grating Scarlett Johansson has signed a deal to make her first record, Scarlett Sings Tom Waits because she hasn’t saturated the media with her presence just yet. Guess she had time to kill between eating cheeseburgers and re-applying lipstick. Are we the only ones tired of her acting like she doesn’t get her whole sex symbol thing while regularly parading her melons on the red carpet?
4. Uh-oh—Tom Cruise did that, too… Jessica Simpson said she has taken over her own public relations duties in a bid to repair her damaged relationship with the press. “I am my own publicist right now. I’ve called all the heads of the tabloids. I don’t want anyone else to speak for me now,” She tells Jane magazine. Oh, don’t worry, daddy’s still in the picture: It was Jessica’s father Joe who fired her publicist Rob Shuter last month after the star appeared on the cover of People proclaiming she was in love with John Mayer.
5. Where’s Waldo?… Wesley Snipes has been indicted on eight counts of tax fraud over allegations he tried to cheat the government out of millions of dollars in false refund claims. The actor also failed to file tax returns for six years between 1999 and 2004. Problem is no one seems to know where The Blade is. But the tax man cometh, Wesley.
6. Let’s hope eight is enough… Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown is expecting boyfriend Eddie Murphy‘s baby. We don’t know what’s weirder, that Eddie knocked up Scary Spice or that this is his eighth baby. Screw family planning, it’s for the poor.
7. Holy porcelain—that was a tough break, Oprah… Oprah Winfrey took a hit when her vacation home on Maui rumbled during the island’s 6.7 magnitude earthquake last week. “All the vases broke, there were books falling off the shelves, but there was no structural damage and nobody (was) hurt.” Phew!
8. Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play… Egad. Heather Mills claims Paul McCartney physically attacked her several times and consumed drugs and alcohol excessively during their marriage. And to think Sir Paul defended her when the tabloids published those skanky naked photos of her from her skanky naked past. Ironically, Heather claims in court papers Paul once called her an “ungrateful bitch.”
9. No one holds a good grudge anymore… After spending almost a year embroiled in a high-profile media battle, Paris and Lindsay are apparently best buds again. Remember when Lindsay accused Paris of hacking into her voicemail, and told Elle magazine, “I started getting prank calls from them (Paris and Brandon Davis) on my voicemail… Obviously, she’s very comfortable making videos.” And what about the whole firecrotch thing? Well, the girls reportedly reconciled in Las Vegas, where they stayed together at the Palms Hotel and gambled until the wee hours of the night. But doesn’t Lindsay remember firecrotch?
10. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…OK, they actually never said that but we bet Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong meant that when have laughed off rumors of a bro-mance. The two were often photographed shirtless, biking, running and partying together throughout the summer. “We tried it (being gay). It wasn’t for us,” Matthew jokes in the new issue of Details magazine. “A lot of people don’t understand friendship and brotherhood. I have a great friend in him.”
