• Naked Cowboy to M&Ms — I’ll see you in court!
• Heather Locklear seeks treatment for depression and anxiety.
• Israelis <3 Zohan.
• Boy George will not be allowed to come to the US.
• Jacob the Jeweler becomes Jacob the Jailed.
• Gary Glitter is planning a comeback.
• Anne Hathaway got out just in time.
• A 17-year old pregs girl from Massachusetts claims there was no pregnancy pact at her high school; is thrilled to be a parent.
• Vivianne Westwood may not be a fan of Sex and the City but she sure seems to like bears.
• There’s lots of plaid in the new Dolce & Gabbana ad campaign.
• Katherine Heigl likes her Chrissy Snow-like teeny weenie bikini.
• Kristen Bell <3s yoga.
• Coldplay play NYC.
• Coreys Haim and Feldman claim they were sexually assaulted when they were younger; deny that it was Michael Jackson that did the deed.
• Solange Knowles is 22, Danielle Spencer (What’s Happening) is 43 and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac is 61 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• Patti Smith: Dream of Life won’t be released in theaters until this September but you can check out the trailer HERE.
• The Bold and the Beautiful’s Heather Tom is auctioning off her Daytime Emmy gown designed by Project Runway’s Jack Mackenroth to raise money for Clothes Off Our Backs. Click HERE to place your bids.
• George Carlin to be the first person to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor posthumously.

Now that Britney Spears is back on track getting her life in order she managed to woo power attorney Laura Wasser back to rejoin her legal team … and Wasser wasted no time hauling everyone back into court this morning to try and win back joint-custody of Sean Preston and Jayden James for Mama Britney. Both Britney and ex-hubby Kevin Federline (with his legal eagle Mark Vincent Kaplan) showed up for a court hearing this morning to revisit the child custody ruling that gave K-Fed full physical custody of the children:

Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline separately arrived at a Los Angeles court Tuesday for a custody hearing. Spears, 26, is apparently seeking a change in her visitation schedule, but details weren’t immediately known. At 8:40 a.m., a somber-looking Federline, wearing a beige suit, entered the courtroom along with his lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan. Spears, also looking somber, entered shortly thereafter with her father. Her blonde hair was straight and long and she wore a white shirt, beige pants, and wedges. She took a seat in the right side of the courtroom, while Federline was seated on left side. Laura Wasser, Spears’s original divorce lawyer, is reportedly rejoining the singer’s legal team. Wasser was seen entering the courtroom along with a lawyer working for Spears’s conservatorship. The pop star currently has monitored visitation with her sons, Preston, 2, and Jayden, 1, three times a week. The ex-couple faces a custody trial in August if they’re unable to settle their case out of court. “Our goal is to settle what we can without a trial to achieve what’s in the best interest of the children,” Kaplan tells PEOPLE. “But whatever can’t be resolved with a private mediator will be brought to trial.”

Wow … Laura Wasser does not waste any time at all, does she? Something tells me that K-Fed and Kaplan were not expecting such a direct assault as this and prolly hadn’t anticipated that Wasser would come back to represent Britney in this custody battle. Don’t get me wrong, I honestly believe that it will be much tougher for Laura Wasser to convince the court that Britney Spears deserves joint physical custody of her sons (despite all the positive progress that Britney has been making in recent months) but Brit Brit’s chances at success are much better with Wasser leading the charge. Britney (with help from her father/conservator Jamie Spears) is serious about getting her life in order. First she got herself under control and now she wants her kids back. Don’t be surprised if Laura Wasser helps Britney get what she wants.

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Comedian Kathy Griffin paid a little visit to the New York offices of US Weekly to do a little interview with the mag and confessed that she and ex-boyfriend Steve Wozniak (the billionaire co-founder of Apple computers) never engaged in sexual relations thruout the course of their “romantic” relationship. Despite dating for some time, the couple never officially consummated their relationship and existed merely “as friends the whole time.”:

Kathy Griffin says she never went all the way with her ex, Apple co-founder billionaire Steve Wozniak. “We were dating, but were just friendly. I never f—-d him or anything!” she told Usmagazine.com during a visit to our NYC offices last Thursday. “The truth is,” she added, “we really were friends the whole time.” … She announced their split in April (they met in 2007 after he watched her perform). After they called it quits, she said “he met someone very quickly and then they [got] engaged.” No hard feelings, said Griffin, who plans to visit Wozniak (who appears on her Bravo reality show) in Saratoga, New York, on July 11. “I have had dinner with them, and she’s a thousand times more appropriate!” she said. “I hate to say it, but in the Bruce, Demi, Ashton [scheme of things], I’m the Bruce!”

Um, something tells me that whoever the lucky lady that The Woz got engaged to after splitting up with Kathy is giving up the goods. It’s interesting that she refers to her relationship with Steve Wozniak as “dating”. If they really were “just friends” as she says, why not say they were just hanging out together rather than dating? It’s kind of a shame that things worked out this way for Kathy and Steve … part of me really liked the idea that they might get married one day. The thought of Kathy Griffin marrying into billions of dollars was an intriguing one … a woman with that much wealth and her sense of humor would be totally unstoppable. She could’ve really become the real White Oprah … but with an acidic tongue that would’ve made things very interesting. Ah well … I guess we’ll just have to deal with the D-Listed Kathy Griffin that we already know and love.

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Marc Malkin of E! News is reporting that Chris Brown’s mother, Joyce Hawkins, may have inadvertently spilled the beans and confirmed that her son and his long-rumored paramour Rihanna are, in fact, romantically involved (despite countless denials from the couple, who maintain that they are “just friends”). Even tho there are many photos of Rihanna and Chris engaged in various romantic embraces and poses (like this photo of pair cuddling at VIP Club in Paris earlier this year), this is the first time that an intimate member of their inner circle has confirmed their relationship:

Rihanna’s got mom’s seal of approval. The hitmaking beauty made a trip to GBK Productions’ Fire & Ice gifting lounge for the BET Awards over the weekend with her boyfriend, fellow music hotshot Chris Brown and his mom, Joyce Hawkins. Hawkins, according to a source, was overheard cooing, “Rihanna is the sexiest and sweetest girl Chris has ever dated.” And for once, the superprivate lovebirds weren’t so private during their hour-or-so-long visit to the lounge. “They came through holding hands and kissing each other on the neck,” says the source.

Honestly, I don’t even know what the big deal is. It’s obvs to everyone that the couple are dating and all their refutations to the contrary are kinda … gross. Chris Brown told MTV News that he and Rihanna are “best friends” as close as “brother and sister” and that they have “the worst luck with pictures” — pictures that constantly show them kissing, hugging and nuzzling one another. Management for the couple prolly insist that they do not confirm their relationship so that each artist appears “available” to their fanbases. I’d be surprised if any of their fans really believed that they aren’t romantically involved. I think I’m gonna believe Chris’s mama and go with the fact that they are dating. The end.

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Madonna, her children Lourdes, Rocco and newly adopted David Banda along with her manager Guy Oseary were spotted at the New York Yankees vs. Cincinnati Reds game at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx here in NYC this past Sunday where the family (sans hubby Guy Ritchie) cheered the Yanks on to a 4-1 victory. Here are a few pics of the happy family (sans Guy Ritchie) enjoying the game from their front-and-center seats:

It’s curious that Guy Ritchie wasn’t present at this family outing but he rarely accompanies his wife and children to the US whenever she travels Stateside so … he must’ve been bizzy with work obligations or something. Anyways, these are really cute pics … it’s always great to see Maddy out with the kiddies. I’m not entirely sure but I believe that this was David Banda’s first baseball game and it looks like he had a great time. You will note that Lola is not wearing the lip ring that she was sporting at a recent Avril Lavigne concert which prolly means it was a fake. Little Rocco is just as cute as can be. He is the perfect miniature version of his father so at least Guy Ritchie could be at the game in spirit. It looks like family fun was had by all!

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Paris Hilton has taken to the blogosphere to refute reports that she tried to buy a puppy to use in a photoshoot from a pet store on Melrose Ave. in LA last week (only to be denied by the pet store who believed the purchase was an “impulse buy”) and writes that no such incident ever occurred. Furthermore, Paris goes on to explain how much she cares for her numerous pets … and manages to throw in a plug for her new MTV competitive reality TV show I Wanna Be Paris’s New Best Friend!. Here is the full text of Paris Hilton’s latest My Space blog:

Sick of Rumors
Current mood: annoyed

Xoxo Paris

Well, I’m glad she straightened all of that up. On the real, I never really believed this piece of goss when it first came out last week. While I don’t necessarily disbelieve that employees at a pet store would deny Paris Hilton the purchase of a pooch, I find it highly unlikely that Paris would let any such denial keep her from procuring the pooch in question. Basically, Paris Hilton gets what Paris Hilton wants. That said, I am heartened that Paris would so publicly proclaim her penchant for serious puppy care (since she has so many of them) and would like to take her statements at face value. As I’ve mentioned previously, I’m impressed that Paris has cleaned up her act in recent months (after starting up her latest relationship with Benji Madden of Good Charlotte) and am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Call me crazy but I do believe that people can change. Paris may not have changed her ways after serving her jail sentence last summer but, thus far, it looks like Benji’s lurve has been a good influence on her. I just hope she stays a good girl.

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Lynne Spears was spotted filling up her car at a gas station in Hammond, LA after dropping her son Bryan Spears off at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport this past Sunday afternoon. When pressed by the photogs for information on Lynne’s newest grandchild, Maddie Briann (who was born to Lynne’s youngest child Jamie Lynn Spears on June 19), Lynne stayed completely silent, not offering a single word in response:

Obvs Lynne Spears is not going to give away any of the details that she pre-sold to OK! magazine for $1 million bucks so I understand her silence. It is yet unclear just how long we will have to wait before that OK! issue with the first pics of Maddie Briann is released. If OK! was smart then they would’ve built a timeline into the agreement with Mama Lynne Spears (ie. the photos would have to be taken within weeks of the baby’s birth), if Mama Lynne was smarter than the deal was left open-ended and the photos wouldn’t have to be shot on anyone’s schedule other than Jamie Lynn’s. Isn’t the business of selling your grandchildren’s photos a tricky one? In any event, I understand that the entire Spears family is planning on remaining totally mum on any news regarding JL or Maddie Briann until the coverstory is released … we shall see how well they are able to keep quiet in the meantime.

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