A variety of tabloids have come up with a wonderful assortment of outrageous claims this week in the never ending saga of Brad & Jen. At this point I just see this as some type of game for the tabloids where they can come up with a fresh story each week which sells copies. At this point it’s obvious the stories are crap, but I think they dish them out because there is a certain segment of the population of the world who loves this stuff. So, lets see what happened this week.

Look Magazine says that Angelina Jolie has been sending text messages to Jennifer Aniston from Brad Pitt’s cell phone and warning Jen to stay away from her man or else. Why would Angelina do this? You are going to love this one. Now Magazine says it is because Jen has been sending gifts to Brad’s office so they can stay friendly in case Brangelina is no more. Neither magazine explains why Angelina wouldn’t use her own phone instead of Brad’s or what the gifts were which got Angelina all riled. Hey, they need to save something for next week.

Maybe they could talk about the picture above. It is from Jen’s new movie and is what she likes to call acting. It is what I like to call ten years of the same look I saw every week on Friends and which continues to torture me through years of syndicated episodes. Go ahead. Turn on a Friends episode right now and you will see the same expression at least three or four times an episode. You could play a drinking game to it. I don’t know if she just went to one day of acting class or this was the only move she could remember, but it’s all she has.

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Sienna Miller just spent a good portion of a magazine interview telling the world that getting with Balthazar Getty may have not been her best move. So what does she do? She goes on vacation with Balthazar and his family. All that goes to show you is that celebrities just say whatever comes out of their mouth in an interview and even when there are quotes, you shouldn’t really believe everything they say.

If you will recall, it was last year at this time that Balthazar and Sienna were spotted everyday naked and in the water in Italy while Balthazar’s wife and kids were just a few miles away. This year though it looks like Sienna has replaced Rosetta Millington and will be attempting to grab the Getty money just as soon as Balthazar gets divorced.

It definitely isn’t as big of a story this year because it has been a year and they are not disrespecting the wife and kids as much. Balthazar is still married, but it just doesn’t have the same juice as last year. Maybe if Sierra got into some drunken mess and threw her shoes at a pap or something. Well, the summer is still young so there is hope.

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“After a five-year break, it feels great to be on stage again.” Uh huh. So sayeth the man who fought his way out of a contract paying him almost six figures a week for a three month run doing some play in Los Angeles. What else could the guy say? I am surprised he didn’t say that he has some other projects in development, or something that at least pretends there are other things in the works. Of course then all we would have to do is go over to IMDb and see there is nothing on it.

I am also wondering if he is going to start missing that paycheck when the new season rolls around and he sees Katherine Heigl who was going to be his walk out buddy still getting her paycheck and not even coming close to a theatre stage. I really don’t understand why people want out of contracts that pay them over a million dollars a year. I just don’t get it. My personal philosophy would be to ride the thing out until the damn thing grinds to a halt and keep collecting the paycheck. It is too easy in the acting business to see your career fade away into nothing and just turn up at some ten year reunion show and be forced to sit in the back row because you have been gone so long.

You work and you work and you finally get the break and then you just throw it all away. Why?

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Megan Fox is considered the hottest woman in the world and yet the sultry starlet suffers serious attacks when she catches a glimpse of herself on screen.

“I never (look at myself), even in still photographs. I don’t look at anything,” Fox told Tarts. “I panic if there is a monitor in the room I immediately go into like an anxiety attack. I’m insecure, I think most actors are pretty insecure.”

And even though the 23-year-old seems to lead a low-key life as far from the limelight as possible, she does feel she’s becoming a victim of over-exposure.

“There are people who get clearly over-hyped. I was in one movie and in my opinion I should not be famous at all,” she added. “But the movie (’Transformers’) was really successful and whatever part I served in it, I did. And it happened.”

And like it or not, Fox is finding the hardest part of being in the spotlight simply learning to keep her mouth closed.

“I’m not coping very well with all this,” the Tennessee-born beauty said as she stared around at the hoopla of the premiere during the Los Angeles Film Festival on Monday night. “Really I’m insane and I don’t know how to control my mouth, but I’m working on it.”

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Singer Chris Brown might have avoided jail time in his vicious attack on Rihanna, but domestic violence experts aren’t letting him off the hook so easily.

Advocates fear Brown’s plea deal, which gave him five years’ probation and community labor, is so cushy that it sends the wrong message to young men and victims.

“It sets a very poor example,” Roslyn Muraskin, director of the Long Island Women’s Institute, said Tuesday.
“This is a person who attacks a woman for no reason whatsoever and now gets away with the attack.”

Brown, 20, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of felony assault in the February attack on Rihanna after the couple left a Grammy party and fought over a text message.

After seeing pictures of Rihanna’s bruised and battered face, many initially figured Brown wouldn’t be able to avoid jail.
And now that he’s been spared from prison, experts fear other boys will expect leniency for abuse.

“Even Paris Hilton got more jail time!” National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy said in a statement.

“Young girls and boys watching this unfold on TV will see than men who commit violence against women practically go scot-free.”

Rita Smith, executive director of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said Brown’s sentence is typical for first offenders - a problem since it might not be harsh enough to stop future attacks.

“I don’t think it’s enough of a consequence,” she said. “If we give them a break, we give them a shorter sentence or less consequence, it basically just says this wasn’t such a big deal.”

Advocates are particularly troubled about the impact of the sentence on the many middle and high school students who look up to Brown and Rihanna.

But Patti Occhiuzzo Giggans, executive director of Peace Over Violence, thinks Brown should get some credit for owning up to the crime.

“I think there was something refreshing about seeing a celebrity admit guilt. We don’t see that often,” she said.

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Will TLC change the name of its drama-filled show from “Jon & Kate Plus 8″ to “Jon & Kate Plus 9″?

In light of the Gosselins’ divorce announcement on Monday night (watched by a record 10.6 million viewers), no, they won’t be having any more children, thanks. However, a carefully placed source tells us that Jon’s reported girlfriend, 23-year-old Deanna Hummel, is expected to join the show next season.

Although the network announced Tuesday that it was pulling the plug on the remaining new episodes of the hit series, the show will resume on Aug. 3 with Deanna on board.

“Deanna’s role isn’t expected to be big, but because she’s part of Jon’s life, she’ll be filmed,” says our insider. The source added that the show will focus primarily on how Jon and Kate are raising their brood separately. As of now, the duo plans to flip-flop the days they reside in the house so the children will not have to shuttle between their parents.

A spokeswoman for TLC confirmed the show’s hiatus and announced that, in lieu of the new episodes, a retrospective of the couple’s first 10 years will air instead. “During this time, the family will take some time off to regroup,” said the rep. Of Deanna’s appearance, the spokeswoman would say only, “We have no specific plans for future episodes.”

For now, Jon and Kate are just trying to get by day to day. Ironically, in the wake of the on-air divorce declaration, the entire Gosselin clan is finally residing in their multimillion- dollar Pennsylvania home together. Although Kate had not been seen at the home in four days (Jon even told reporters on Father’s Day that he didn’t know when she’d be back), she returned to her family shortly before midnight on Monday.

A pal of Kate’s says that, since making the announcement, a huge weight has been lifted from her shoulders.

“She has been taking some time to think about her life,” said the pal. “She’s upset about what’s going on, but she and Jon will always be there for their children, and they’ll always come first on her list of priorities. But considering she’s in the middle of a divorce, Kate is quite upbeat.”

Said Kate in Tuesday night’s telecast, “I’m tired of smiling on the outside and crying on the inside.”

Now, it appears, her happiness is for real.

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A night out with the boys may get Justin Timberlake in hot water with girlfriend Jessica Biel.

According to an eyewitness, the singer was in party mode at Chelsea hot spot Avenue one recent night. “Usually Justin is pretty in control, but he was acting pretty crazy,” our spy said. “He was drinking tequila all night. At one point, he cleared out a little space and started break dancing. He was bumping into people and spilling drinks. It was hilarious.”

Our source also says that at one point, Lindsay Lohan, currently off with on-again, off-again girlfriend Samantha Ronson, tried to dance with Timberlake, but “he shooed her away.”

But that didn’t stop Timberlake from later cozying up to an unidentified brunette partygoer. “It definitely wasn’t Jessica,” laughs our source. “He was pretty drunk.”

Later that night, Lohan ended up posting a thinly veiled message on her Twitter account, “where’s jb cheater” — seemingly referring to Timberlake’s girlfriend, Biel. The next day, she added, “Why do people cheat?” But she eventually backtracked, claiming that both messages had been sent by someone who’d hacked into her Twitter account.

Avenue owner Noah Tepperberg said, “My partner, Danny A, was with Justin and a few of his guy friends the entire night, and I was within 15 feet of him the whole time he was there, and we know for sure he was not doing anything with other girls. He was having a good time with the guys, and came and left with them. I have surveillance cameras that show this to be the case and anything you are hearing is simply not true.”

A rep for Timberlake said, “I have no comment on my client’s personal life.”

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The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is demanding the obnoxious blogger apologize for call ing the Black Eyed Peas star a “faggot” at a Toronto music party, raging, “For someone in our own community to use it to at tack another person . . . is incredibly dangerous.” But Hilton told TMZ.com that GLAAD is victimizing him “for how I nonvio lently dealt with a very scary situa tion.” Peas manager Polo Molina allegedly sucker-punched Hilton after the slur. Meanwhile, John Mayer ripped Hilton in a Twitter: “P!nk kneed me in the [bleep] outside Chateau Marmont. I was p - - - ing blood for days. Did I make a scene?” The pop star added: “I also want to train you in an old martial art called ‘Never Call a Black Dude a Faggot Jitsu.’ ”

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