1. It’s not the hunger, it’s the heat… Nicole Richie, 24, reportedly fainted during a shopping spree at the Los Angeles boutique Kitson. An eyewitness described the shop-til-she-dropped incident to Life & Style magazine, saying: “The staff helped her to a chair and offered her something to eat. She shot back, ‘No!’ and mumbled something about it being ‘so hot.’”
2. It was mean-spirited and targeted at Lindsay, so it must be… Paris Hilton has blasted reports she hacked into Lindsay Lohan’s BlackBerry and sent offensive messages to her friends from it. Paris‘ representative told PageSix.com: “I’m saddened this happened to Lindsay. I lived through this with Paris two years ago when her Sidekick was hacked into, and the loss of privacy is unbearable. But as for any suggestion that Paris would have anything to do with this, that is silly, untrue and unfortunate.”
3. He almost saw dead people… The Sixth Sense star Haley Joel Osment, now 18, crashed his 1995 Saturn station wagon into a pillar and flipped it earlier this week, and police think he may have been inebriated. L.A. County Sheriff’s sergeant Mark Slater told the New York Daily News, “We suspect alcohol played a role in the accident.” Let’s hope not. Little Haley Joel held so much promise once, it would be a shame to see him go down the liquored path.
4. That’s just crazy talk… The National Enquirer has been forced to apologize not once, but twice, for… wait for it… lying. Here’s what the NE is sorry they said: 1) Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s marriage is over, and 2) Kate Hudson is “painfully thin.” What were they thinking?
5. Maybe that’s why… Lindsay Lohan has stopped reading tabloids—she’s mad at them and their lies. Lindsay said she is perplexed about what’s reported about her in the glossies: “(The weirdest is) that I’ve had breast implants and that I had a Hilary Duff dartboard in my apartment,” she explains. “But I don’t really read a lot of the things that get written about me. I’ve learned that it’s better not to.” Yet she knows about that dart board.
6. We’ll smoke to that… Bobby Brown has slammed reports he has split from his singer wife Whitney Houston, insisting they recently celebrated their 14th wedding anniversary. Brown’s rep insists the couple enjoyed a quiet dinner to mark their anniversary and is still happily married. Whitney‘s spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer, meanwhile, says she has “no comment on the state of their union.”
7. It’s a highway wreck, and we can’t look away… Kevin Federline is set to perform at the 2006 Teen Choice Awards next month. According to Hollywood columnist JaneCharlton, K-Fed has been booked to perform on the show on August 20. There is no word on whether the “PopoZao” singer’s $20,000 appearance fee applies here.
8. I love you, you’re perfect, now marry me… Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson stunned Hollywood this week when they announced they were getting married on a yacht in St. Tropez in the south of France on July 29. The Kid said he realized how much he loved Pam when the two bumped into each other in France earlier this month. “It was like we’d never been apart,” he tells People magazine. “It turned out great. She had the kids there and it was so nice to see them and it was wonderful. Love her to death.”
9. Not that there’s anything wrong with that… “The truth is, if we were gay, we would tell you, because there’s nothing wrong with being gay.” That’s Oprah Winfrey’s best friend and business partner Gayle King, hitting back at rumors of a secret love affair in the August issue of O, the Oprah Magazine. Oprah adds, “I understand why people think we’re gay. There isn’t a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women.” We like Oprah! But not everyone does.
10. Ah ha, hush that fuss… Outkast’s Andre 3000 reportedly rejected an offer to promote the hip-hop duo’s upcoming movie Idlewild on The Oprah Winfrey Show because of Oprah’s war on rap. That’s just wrong, 3000. It’s not Oprah vs. Rap, it’s Oprah vs. Ludacris.
