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• Paris and Benji: no more?! We hope Paris’ almost sister-in-law Nicole Richie had a hand in this break up!  [DListed]
• Everyone’s distracted by Scarlett Johansson’s glorious boobs, not just you.  [BWE.tv]
• We have a crush on this hot 25-year-old hacker named Virgil Griffith. [Buzzfeed]
• We see London, we see France, we see Eva Longoria’s underpants Spanx.  [Seriously? OMG!]
• Gwyneth Paltrow apologizes for wearing fur - probably because Oprah told her to do it.  [Hollyscoop]
• Best new couple ever: Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Turtle from Entourage!  [ICYDK]
• Winona Ryder was rushed to the hospital today. Sad face.  [I'mNotObsessed]

Lindsay Lohan can’t resist ruining a good thing. Samantha Ronson is sweet, stable and has hot legs, and yet all Lindsay can think of is flirting with her ex-boyfriend Calum Best. That’s the story out of London today, where Lindsay ruffled her girlfriend’s feathers after she apparently danced with former flame Calum Best at the Boujis nightclub. Shouldn’t a maneater like Linds know better than to pit her current flame against her ex?

The result was the usual routine Sam and LiLo go through just about every night: Sam got jealous. They fought inside their car after leaving the club at 3:45 AM. Lindsay cried. Sam stomped off into their hotel. Lindsay sat in the car for ten minutes.

We’ve got ‘em pictured above leaving the club right before the shizz hit the fan. Sam sure looks pissed, but Lindsay’s smiling. Thinking sweet thoughts of Calum, perhaps? [Photo: Splash News Online]

Gwyneth Paltrow is apparently doing everything in her power to convince tabloids that she is this close to dumping her husband Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay. She’s doing the usual stuff that most women do to signal a marriage is over: filming a reality show in Spain with fat chef Mario Batali, chilling in Miami for the Victoria’s Secret fashion show, and hanging out with billionaire hotelier Jeff Soffer. “Gwyneth doesn’t have anything to do with Victoria’s Secret,” hissed one envious spy. “If things were so great with Chris, why wouldn’t she be with him?” Another added, “she certainly didn’t act like a happily married woman.”

Wow ladies, jealous much? If Gwynnie is thinking of leaving her British hubby, we’d suggest she time the split to happen when he ends things with his band. Chris told the Daily Express that Coldplay is trying to cram as much playing into 2009, as he’s not interested in turning out snoozey hits much longer. “I’m 31 now and I don’t think that bands should keep going past 33,” he said.

Neither should marriages, Chris! [NME. NYP. Photo: GettyImages]

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When champion egoist Tom DeLonge left Blink-182 in 2005 to take the long way to Uranus with Angels & Airwaves, it didn’t look like the popular pop-punk trio would ever work together again. But following the recent death of producer Jerry Finn and drummer Travis Barker’s plane crash, the former friends were inspired to patch things up. Bassist Mark Hoppus spilled the beans on his blog.

in the midst of everything else that has happened lately, tom, travis, and i have all spoken together. first through a number of phone calls, and then a couple of weeks ago we all hung out for a few hours. they’ve all been great, very positive conversations. we’re just reconnecting as friends after four years of not talking. it’s a good thing. obviously the first question for a lot of people will be “does this mean a blink-182 reunion?” the answer is none of us know. we haven’t talked about it at all. right now it’s just good for the three of us to see one another, reconnect, and let the past be the past. the events of the past two months supersede everything that happened before. life is too short.

Both Angels & Airwaves and Hoppus and Barker’s band, (+44), plan on releasing albums next year, so there probably won’t be any full-on reunion soon. But if both acts bomb in ‘09, it’s hard to imagine what would keep them from reviving such a sure thing.

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Blink-182 at a KROQ Christmas concert in 1998. They look so young!
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Blink-182 at the MTV Icon tribute to The Cure in 2004.
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Travis Barker outside his 33rd Birthday Party last week.
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Tom DeLonge and Angels & Airwaves bandmate Matt Wachter last December.
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Mark Hoppus at the mtvU Woodie Awards this month.
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Britney Spears has just now figured out that hindsight really is 20/20. A new teaser from her upcoming MTV documentary reveals that Brit’s now all “oops!” when it comes to her marriage to Kevin Federline. If only she had been able to smell a loser back in 2004, we could have avoided this whole mess. Alas, clarity just wasn’t in the stars for our screwed up songbird.

“I think I married for the wrong reasons,” Britney said of her two-year marriage to K-Fed. “Instead of following my heart and, like, doing something that made me really happy, I just did it for the sake of the idea of everything.”

While we have no idea what she’s talking about, she never did claim to be a philosopher, just a pop star hungry for Cheetos, Mercedes, and dead-beat stoners. We’re relieved her ‘everything’ is now tightly controlled by her dad. If Britney’s bad judgement doesn’t keep the losers out, Papa Spears will!  [Us. Photo: FilmMagic]

• Happy 2-Year Anniversary Robots Tom and Katie!  [DListed]
• Amy Winehouse revives her beehive, but her face is still out of luck.  [Seriously? OMG!]
• So this is what Aubrey O’Day has been up to since Diddy booted her from Danity Cane.  [BWE.tv]
• Nooooooooooooooooooo! Oprah’s dog Solomon has died! This is not one of our favorite things.  [Buzzfeed]
• Snoop Dogg on Martha Stewart - this clip will brighten your dizzle.  [Jezebel]
• Heidi Klum is still pretty, still rich, and still annoying.  [ICYDK]

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The next stop on Britney Spears‘ composed comeback tour: Rockefeller Center. The pop star will bring her Circus act to New York City’s famous tree lighting ceremony on December 3rd. “Details of her appearance are still being finalized, but she’s confirmed to appear,” Life & Style reveals. Britney will join a star-studded line-up including Beyonce, Faith Hill, the Jonas Brothers, David Cook, Harry Connick, Jr, Tony Bennett, and Rascal Flatts. Just another boring day for Brit. [Source: Life and Style; Photo: Getty]

This past weekend, Courtney Love thrilled fans with over 60 blog posts, mostly filled with random Style.com links to various outfits complimented by her gushing commentary. One Lanvin dress so inspired the singer, she wrote, “id fully wear this! f*ck the world.” But she also dropped some sad stuff out on the web, prompting concern from readers who worried that she might be suicidal. But never fear! Courtney responded in the only way she knows how - with another crazy blog post, of course.

“i apologize for the barrage of links , they didn’t turn out the way i assumed style.com made it seem they would, as an illustrated story about how depression can attack anyone anywhere, and no i am not suicidal, occasionally very occasionally like all of us i get depressed, and that was over a year ago and i had a mini little depression attack well big one, and the Lanvin show made me happier, i don’t know quite why it happened but i find that medication is not the answer to this, working out and doing daimoku ( chanting) is as is yoga and eating correctly and i want some more high country Kombucha tea i think that stuff is miraculous for glow and health. those things work far better than this chemical culture of numbing our rage and numbing our pains and demons…”

It goes on and on, but you get the point. She’s not suicidal; just a terrible writer, void of any ability to self-censor - or spell check.  [Photos: WireImage]

It’s not what Scott Weiland says in this LA Times interview that will disturb you, so much as what he doesn’t seem to be able to say: anything. For instance, how did recent family tragedies affect the creation of his new solo album, Happy In Galoshes?

It’s been a, a, year and a half, where my brother…passed away…my mother had cancer, but survived…beat the cancer…and I, uh…my wife and I [undiscernable] there’s always uh…as an artist…there’s…I guess there’s…the bonus.

Watching him construct that sentence might be the longest forty-five seconds of your life.

Lots of artists complain about the road and being away from their family, but few come off as tired or as agonized as the Stone Temple Pilots frontman. “It pains me when I’m gone for a month, even…there, uh, um…there are differences…big, positive, amazing differences…beautiful differences that I haven’t been a part of because I’ve been…working…to…uh, well, to make the money.” Good thing you’re back on tour in January, bro!

If this clip wasn’t bad enough, Weiland also made an appearance on Howard Stern today, showing up late and pissing off the host. Check out some recap highlights of that interview after the jump.

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It’s only Tuesday, but this is already shaping up to be a weak week for Prince. First he was quoted in the New Yorker dissing gay marriage and claiming “God came to earth and saw people sticking it wherever and doing it with whatever, and he just cleared it all out. He was, like, ‘Enough.” This from a man who spent his twenties wearing women’s underwear on stage.

Countless fans were upset that the Purple One could be so intolerant, but this isn’t the first time he was accused of homophobia since his religious conversion to Jehovah’s Witnesses. The biography Possessed:Rise And Fall Of Prince included claims that he would only reunite with Revolution members Wendy & Lisa if they renounced their lesbian relationship. But Perez Hilton says that Prince was misquoted. “What His Purpleness actually did was gesture to the Bible and said he follows what it teaches, referring mainly to the parts about loving everyone and refraining from judgment…” We can only hope!

If this wasn’t enough bad publicity, he’s now being sued by the makers of his 3121 perfume. It seems the star hasn’t bothered to do any promotional work for the perfume line for over a year—despite plans to release a new fragrance in 2009. Sounds like somebody needs to do some PR damage control. Maybe he could hand out free samples at a pride parade.

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