Britney Should Give Her Boots the Boot  —  Is Britney Spears the new Linus?  —  The Peanuts character had his blanket, and it seems Brit has her security boots.  —  Spears, 25, appears unable to part with her $170, Kenneth Cole boots - no matter how bizarre the frumpy footwear looks with her outfit.

Girls Gone Wild's Joe Francis Charged with Bribery  —  Joe Francis is having a bad week.  —  Jailed in Florida for criminal contempt on Tuesday and indicted in Reno for tax evasion on Wednesday, the Girls Gone Wild creator has now been charged with bribing a jail guard for a bottle of water …

FROM THE "PANACHE VAULT," SKY VILLA PRESENTS: 'SCANDAL SHEET' by our "Shadow Unit."  —  MILLIONAIRE DIRECTOR ARRESTED (AS PROSTITUTE IN DRAG)  —  Rapper/actor Ice Cube has good instincts, he knew something wasn't quite right with his "XXX: State Of The Union," director, Lee Tamahori …

Madonna Heads to Malawi for Charity  —  Madonna is on her way to Malawi for charity work - not to adopt another child, the singer's rep tells PEOPLE.  —  "Madonna is indeed going to Africa to continue her work with the Raising Malawi organization," says her rep Liz Rosenberg.

Ignition Impossible  —  PR stunts usually run like clockwork for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes but unfortunately luck has finally run out for the couple.  —  Tom Cruise was left red faced after his fancy vintage car failed to start infront of photographers, as he struggled to drive his wife away.

Gwen Stefani: 'I've Always Been on a Diet'  —  You can excuse a girl a bit of vanity - even Gwen Stefani.  "If you had paparazzi outside your house, you'd make sure you looked good, too," the singer and fashion designer tells Harper's Bazaar in its May issue.

Sir Philip's junkie protegee  —  All the scabrous signs of his drug-based decadence were on show: weeping sores, bleeding nostrils, cracked lips.  Pete Doherty almost had to prise open his mouth to sing.  —  The junkie rocker, frontman of the aptly named Babyshambles, was doing a gig at the Hackney Empire, East London.

CAUGHT IN WEB  —  JIMMY Kimmel sounded smug when he guest-hosted "Larry King Live" and told Gawk er.com editor Emily Gould he "doesn't know anyone who would advertise on Web sites like hers."  It turns out Kimmel's own show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live," buys ad space on three blogs similar to Gawker …

Shyamali Malakar Hooters Pic Number Two  —  Shyamali Malakar couldn't have unleashed this latest Hooters pic at a better time — while little bro Sanjaya rallies on another week in the American Idol competition, the publicity generated from this photograph could be enough to get Sanjaya voted into the top three!

MEL'S HELL  —  DNA TEST DONE AFTER TEN DAYS  —  SHE was devastated when Eddie Murphy failed to get in touch after she gave birth.  —  Now a heartbroken Mel B has been reduced to tears after being forced to take DNA from her 10-day-old baby girl, Fortuna Daphne Bay, to prove he is the father.

Why Reese Witherspoon Fell for Jake Gyllenhaal  —  After her painful split from Ryan Phillippe last year, Reese Witherspoon didn't see a relationship coming - but her nascent romance with Jake Gyllenhaal is the real thing, friends say.  —  At first they seemed like an unlikely match …

Britney's In with the Old, Out with the New  —  Hey guess what?  Tell me if you've heard this one before.  Britney went shopping and came in wearing one thing but went out wearing another.  She seemed in good spirits for being followed everywhere.  Lucky for us she finally ditched …

GOOD FOR YUKS  —  "AMERICAN Pie" star Sean William Scott is very comfortable with his sexuality - so much so that when another paper claimed Scott had shown up with David Geffen at "Heat," a nonexistent L.A. gay bar, he didn't even bother to correct them.  Maybe it's because he was too busy laughing.

Brad Gives Us A Scary Glimpse Into the Future  —  Looking at these pictures makes me want to freeze Brad Pitt in time before hair loss and wrinkles take hold of that beautiful face.  Luckily we only have to look at him this way as Benjamin Button - Brad's latest movie about a man who ages backwards.

Penelope Cruz Says She Wants to Adopt  —  Penelope Cruz wants to have kids of her own - but she also hopes to adopt.  —  "Of course I want to have kids," Cruz, 32, tells the Spanish edition of Marie Claire in its April issue.  "I want to have my own kids, but also adopt.

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JENNIFER LOPEZ SCIENTOLOGY RUMOUR #231  —  It looks like Latina lustress Jennifer Lopez is flirting with Scientology again.  —  J.Lo's 'American Idol' appearance earlier this week has fueled rumours that she might be taking Scientology seriously.  —  When asked about her comments …