Question: why are we still calling him “Kid?” The white-trash rocker/rapper, whose trial is still pending from an assault charge at a Duluth, Georgia waffle house, is reportedly returning to the scene of the crime- this time for charity.

Talk about a special warm-up gig.

Kid Rock may be playing at Atlanta’s Gwinnett Arena on March 11 – but before his performance, the rocker is returning to the Duluth, Ga., Waffle House where he was arrested for battery after a fight last October to greet fans and sign autographs for charity, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting.

While the rocker (real name Robert James Ritchie) has pleaded not guilty to the charges, organizers say that Kid Rock’s fight is the farthest thing from their mind.

“For a while now, we’ve been working with Kid Rock’s management to try and turn a negative into a positive,” Pat Warner, a Waffle House rep, told the newspaper. “We’re hoping to raise some money for a worthwhile charity.” All proceeds from the event, which begins at 2 p.m., will benefit Nicholas House, a homeless shelter for families in DeKalb County.

Organizers expect a heavy fan turnout – and local radio stations have been promoting Kid Rock’s appearance. One rock station has auctioned off passes to the Waffle House event, as well as tickets to the concert that night and a backstage meet-and-greet.

[From People]

While the police report in Kid’s arrest doesn’t elaborate, it’s reported that the fisticuffs that led to his arrest last year involved an inebriated male diner at the Waffle House who made some unsavory remarks about a woman in Kid’s entourage. He’s been charged with misdemeanor battery, and pled not guilty last week. It’s nice that Kid is trying to repair his image and do some charity work. However, Kid does have a fondness for punching people: he assaulted another one of ex-wife Pam Anderson’s ex-husbands, fellow douchebag Tommy Lee, during a live broadcast of the Video Music Awards last September. I guess Kid’s mom never taught him to keep his hands to himself.

Kid Rock is shown at the American Music Awards on 11/18/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

Never let it be said that Kid Rock is not a gentleman. Sure he may randomly attack you at an awards show, and he and his crew may beat you up at 5 a.m. at a waffle house, but if you return expensive stuff to him, he will take care of you handsomely. Kid Rock was eating at Justin Timberlake’s Upper East Side restaurant Southern Hospitality the other day when a busboy spotted a watch on the floor. He returned it to Kid Rock, and what ensued is the stuff service worker legends are made of.

Looking out for Kid Rock sure is rewarding. When a busboy at Southern Hospitality found a $200,000 watch on the floor and returned it to Kid, the rocker gave him $1,000 cash. “The watch wasn’t even his; it belonged to one of Kid’s friends,” said our source. Rock was also throwing cash at members of his raucous crew. “He was daring his friends to drink bottles of tabasco and barbecue sauce. Two of his friends won $500 each” for stepping up to the challenge, said our source.

[From Page Six]

Alright, new life plan: quit job and follow Kid Rock and his entourage around wherever they go. Hand them back whatever random crap they drop on the ground. Reap insane rewards.

I always enjoy stories of celebrities being exceptionally cool to the rest of us “little people.” Especially when it’s people like Kid Rock, who is generally known for his excessive rowdiness/debauchery/quasi-douchebaggery. In other Kid Rock-related news, his arraignment for October’s waffle house battery incident has been postponed to February 4th. It also appears he may get out of the charges completely, pending a review of the evidence. Kid Rock also escaped charges in the beating up Tommy Lee at the VMA’s incident. I’m going to assume that none of this legal luck was influenced by $1000 bills. But it could likely have something to do with tabasco drinking competitions.

Picture note by Jaybird: The sexiness that is Kid Rock, shown as he kicked off the Detroit Auto Show with a concert and fashion show featuring celeb designers and GM cars on January 13th. Images thanks to Splash Photos.

When the story came out about Kid Rock getting caught up in a fight between members of his entourage and a guy harassing them at a Waffle House in Atlanta, it sounded like he was just at the wrong place with the wrong people at the wrong time or something. Despite Rock’s history of being an abusive bully who is all too willing to come to blows over any perceived argument, I honestly thought he wasn’t that involved in the fight. It turns out that I was wrong, according to at least one witness who says that Rock started the fight when a guy annoyed him off by talking smack to a woman he was with. Just like with Tommy Lee at the VMAs, it was Rock who threw the first punch:

After a performance at a club called The Tabernacle, Kid and his buddies strolled into the breakfast eatery in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood at 5 a.m. on Oct. 21, when restaurant patron Harlen DeJon Akins made a comment to a female member of the group.

Kid, 36, argued with Akins, 39, and before long the rocker was throwing punches. But Kid was on the losing end of the brawl - and he would have been pummeled if his buddies hadn’t jumped in to save him, say eyewitnesses.

“Kid started the whole thing,” one witness told The Enquirer. “He threw the first punch and kept swinging, but Akins was whipping him bad until Rock’s buddies piled in.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, November 5, 2007]

It sounded like the witness may have been biased toward the other side, though, as they are quoted as saying that he was a “wussy” and “a little punk” and that “if his buddies hadn’t saved him, Akins would have wiped the floor with him.”

It’s true that Rock did start the fight, no matter how biased the Enquirer’s source may be. They say that a police spokeswoman confirmed that Rock threw the first punch. The guy Rock was fighting with may be charged with second degree criminal damage, which is a felony, for breaking the window of the restaurant during the fight.

Meanwhile Kid Rock has caught a break for his fight with Tommy Lee at the VMAs. Cops have decided not to charge him with battery, and Tommy Lee may have had something to do with it. He requested that no charges were brought against Rock. TMZ notes that he could still be charged with misdemeanor battery for the Waffle House beat-down.

Kid Rock is shown performing on 10/18/07. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Kid Rock took a bunch of his estranged wife Pamela Anderson’s friends to Hawaii in early December, and ever-reliable source The Globe reports that they gossiped about Pam during the vacation. They claim that Rock suspects that Pam faked her brief pregnancy, which ended in a miscarriage while she was filming Blonde and Blonder in Canada with Denise Richards. A supposed source says that Pam is “devastated” and thinks that Rock is trying to win her friends over to his side:

A source tells me that in early December, Kid sent his soon-to-be-ex a beautiful bouquet of flowers to let her know that he still loves her. Then days later, he whisked a bunch of her close pals, including L.A. socialite Diana Jenkins… David Space, and… Cindy Crawford and her hubby… to Hawaii for a U2/Pearl Jam concert and put them up at the luxurious Halekulani Hotel in Waikiki, where they dished the dirt - mostly about Pam! “Among other things, the Gang discussed Kid’s suspicions that Pam faked her pregnancy, her hard-partying ways and stupidity for not signing a prenup,” says the insider. “Needless to say, Pam is absolutely devastated. She believes that Kid is trying to influence her friends and turn them all against her. She feels deserted, as well. She especially doesn’t like the way Diana, who served as one of her two bridesmaids during her wedding bash in St. Tropez, has jumped in and started cozying up to Kid. it is a real slap in the face to her - and the ultimate betrayal.”

[From Globe print edition January 7, 2007]

Pam struck out at Kid’s earlier claim that she was partying and neglecting her two children during their brief marriage. She said that he was lying when he claimed that she was out drinking every night, and that it was Rock that was away from home while she watched his son.

Both Pam and Kid Rock hosted parties in Las Vegas for New Years. Pam was at Tao at the Venetian and was seen getting cozy with Chuck Zito. Rock was at Jet at the Mirage.

Pictures of Pam on New Year’s Eve are from Splash News.

It looks like Borat is the reason behind the breakup of Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock’s less than four-month marriage. Pam screened the movie for Kid, in which she makes a cameo as herself with Borat throwing a bag over her head and chasing her around. She looks like she’s really bothered by the whole thing and is caught offguard, but word is she was in on the joke. Kid was so upset at her performance that he called her a slut in front of everyone. That’s pretty much when their really solid marriage broke down:

“Ron Meyer held a screening of ‘Borat’ at his house for a bunch of people, including Pam and Bob,” says an Anderson pal. “It was the first time Bob [Kid Rock] had seen the movie, and, well, he didn’t like it.”

The hugely popular film shows Sasha Baron Cohen - in character as Borat Sagdiyev - falling in love with Anderson after seeing her in a “Baywatch” rerun, then driving across America in order to propose marriage to her.

Her friend tells Page Six, “Bob started screaming at Pam, saying she had humiliated herself and telling her, ‘You’re nothing but a whore! You’re a slut! How could you do that movie?’ - in front of everyone. It was very embarrassing.

“Pam thought he could have a sense of humor about the movie. She was in on the gag from the very beginning and loved doing the movie. And on the eve of what was supposed to be a very positive thing, he made it an awful night.

“Ever since that night, it has been icicles between them,” the friend relates. “Bob is just a very unhappy and angry man. Pam is very disenchanted and sad. You know, there are reasons why she never married him before. Those reasons disappeared while they were together on a boat in St. Tropez, but she knows now that they never went away. The reality is he is an insecure, angry man….

“Pam is just very happy to not be in the same house with so much passive-aggressive hostility in it,” the friend adds.

My husband would be overjoyed if Borat stalked me and I made it into a movie. Kid Rock must have a real problem.

The second time around was apparently not successful for trashy couple Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock. TMZ is reporting that Pamela just filed for divorce after less than three months of marriage! They seemed like they would make it a year at least. Pamela suffered a miscarriage and was away filming in Canada for a while. I wonder what happened and if she caught Kid Rock cheating or something when she came back.

TMZ has learned that Pamela Anderson has filed for divorce from husband Kid Rock.

Anderson, who is represented by celebrity hotshot lawyer Neal Hersh, cited irreconcilable differences.

The couple was married August 3, 2006.

We’ve learned there was not a prenup, however, the two were married for such a brief period of time it will probably have little impact.

Maybe this explains why they got so annoyed at the paparazzi.

The model Kid Rock was dating right before he reconciled with Pamela Anderson is heartbroken by how quickly he moved on - and how coldly he dumped her. Jill Marie Gulseth, 22, tells In Touch that Kid Rock broke up with her unexpectedly via text message:

The future’s kind of hazy with Kid Rock, and this naive chick is much better off without him.

It seems to be kind of popular among rock stars to dump their girlfriends via SMS. Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine told Jessica Simpson he was “really busy” and “needed space” in a text message. The poor girl never saw him again.

Picture from x17online.

Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock got married in the first of the four weddings they’re planning. They were wed on a yacht on Saturday in Saint Tropez, France. Pam wore a white bikini and captain’s cap, and Kid Rock looked even less presentable shirtless in jeans and a fedora.

These two are not going to last three months.

Like Eminem, Kid Rock reveals his misogynistic personality in his lyrics. Here’s a preview of what these two did on their wedding night: (Warning, this is freaking gross.)

Sorry for that, I could not resist posting those lyrics.

Here are Pam Anderson and Kid Rock on their wedding day. The woman got married to two different guys, wearing a bikini each time. So classy. [via]

Kid Rock was temporarily placed in jail in Switzerland after a man was injured in a fight in his hotel room. It is assumed that he was involved:

I live in Switzerland, and am continually amazed at how clean and well run everything is. The public pool near my house is nice enough for a four star resort, and I was at a rest stop by a clear lake with views of the alps last week. If Kid Rock was in jail, it was probably clean and totally adequate, if not comfortable.

Meanwhile Rock is engaged to buxom has-been Pamela Anderson, and there’s a pretty believable rumor that they may get married next weekend:

They are said to be planning a medium-sized wedding with 50-100 of their friends. I read on a bulletin board that they were already married, but I haven’t seen that news anywhere else and don’t think it’s true.

Here is Pam Anderson on the beach in St. Tropez, because who really wants to look at pictures of Kid Rock? [via] It must be hard to find a colorist in the south of France. Kid Rock and Anderson are also shown at random older events.

First Stapp’s career was ruined forever by the timely release of a sex tape, and now he’s getting sued by one of the female stars in the video:

The tape is now in limbo after Stapp and Rock won a temporary court order to prevent its distribution. I really hope that it comes out that Stapp released the video for self-promotion and is only whining about it to hide his involvement. Kid Rock says that Stapp’s an idiot and that the video will only help sales of his new album.