The rumor mill is buzzing that Paula Abdul is going to make her exit from “American Idol” after this year. Her contract is almost up and the show has brought on a new female judge for the upcoming season. It certainly seems like everyone is planning for Paula to move on.

Paula Abdul is planning to bow out of American Idol! According to a source close to the reality judge, Paula, 45, who has been with the show for seven years, is developing new TV projects and is hoping to “transition” out of the Fox hit.

With her fellow judge, Randy Jackson, telling friends that American Idol has lost its magic, another Paula insider explains, “She knows that every season could be her last. Now she’s got a new secret venture that she’s really excited about.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Paula’s “secret venture” according to the Enquirer actually sounds pretty cool and unique. She’s planning a Vegas show with a cheerleader premise. Which beats the hell out of strippers and magic shows. It sounds pretty creative, but is clearly in the initial planning stages.

Paula Abdul is going back to her cheerleading roots! With her “American Idol” contract nearing its end, she’s plotting to launch a cheerleader-themed Cirque du Soleil-type show in Las Vegas, The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively. Paula – a former Los Angeles Lakers cheerleader – is secretly negotiating with several Sin City casinos to headline a stage extravaganza that would open in late 2009, sources say.

“Paula has no idea what could happen when her contract with ‘Idol’ ends after next season,” an insider says. “It’s possible she’ll strike a deal and stay with the show, but she’s not depending on that. She’s secretly putting together an exit strategy.”

Paula’s concept – a fast-paced cheerleading performance integrated into a dance show – has been an idea in the making for many years. But sources close to the 46-year-old singer and Emmy-winning choreographer say the concept could become a reality based on her meetings with several of the same casino execs who helped develop illusionist Criss Angel’s show “Believe” at the Luxor.

“It will be very state-of-the-art with a number of stage props, such as water, lightening and pyrotechnics,” the source reveals. “No one knows whether Paula will be back for another season of ‘Idol’ after this one, but she’s preparing for the future – and she sees her future in Las Vegas!”

[From the National Enquirer, Nov. 24, 2008, print ed.]

This is one of the few Vegas shows I can imagine seeing. I’m curious to know how this will all come together. Unfortunately being associated with Criss Angel doesn’t exactly garner a lot of respect, and his latest show has been widely panned. But that has a lot more to do with Angel than anything else. Paula definitely knows performance, and she’s presumably a good teacher as well, since she was a successful choreographer for many years. It seems like she’s got the perfect background to put together a show like this, and she could even incorporate singing into it in some way. “American Idol” is dying a slow death – and it looks like Paula is ready to move on to better things.

Here’s Paula chatting on her cell phone as she left a Los Angeles Hotel heading to Hollywood for an “American Idol” event yesterday. Images thanks to Fame. Paula is shown in the header at an ET Emmy pary on 9/21/08. Credit: PRphotos.

Peaches Geldof has admitted that she did rush into marriage and predicts that her union will probably end in divorce. Is she possibly trying to soften us for an announcement? Did anyone predict that the 19-year-old’s Vegas union with her boyfriend of a month wouldn’t last?

She told Heat magazine: ‘You can’t ignore divorce rates. Every friend of mine has parents who are now divorced.

‘I didn’t go into it with Max thinking, ‘This is going to last forever’, but I did go into it thinking, ‘I love him right now and I know that I will continue to love him for a long while.’

The London party girl did not tell her protective father what she had done until after the wedding and confirmed that he didn’t approve of her decision to become a teenage bride.

She confessed: ‘He said, ‘Well, I think it’s a really intense thing to do and, in my opinion, as your father, I think it’s a bit silly because you’re very young.

‘But, at the same time, I’m happy for you, and if you love him, that’s a really good thing.’

Daily Mail

I’m not sure what peaches calls a long time – in the context of her 4 month relationship, the three months she’s been married is quite a long time. In a geological timeframe, not very long. However, at 19 it seemed absolutely impossible for me to wait six months for a new season of Buffy to come out, so I’m guessing that a long while is about 3 years, tops.

Peaches also explains how she came about the decision to get married, which at least sounds like fun, in a Britney-goes-to-Vegas kind of way.

Miss Geldof claimed the wedding was her 23-year-old husband’s idea: ‘He said to me, ‘I don’t want you to go back to London. I don’t want to lose this bond with you. I don’t want you to be taken away from me.

‘Why don’t we just take a trip to Vegas and do something like get married?’ I was like, ‘Hell yeah!’

‘I thought, ‘I’m 19 years old, this is amazing and a little bit nuts, but I’ve fallen in love with him, so why not?’

Daily Mail

Many people do get married at 19 and it lasts. Peaches has already been to rehab, lost her mother, travelled the world and has a career. She’s clearly not your average teenager. Or maybe this union just proves that she is.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Peaches Geldof and Max Drummey are shown leaving the Malmaison hotel in Manchester on 8/21/08. Credit: Fame Pictures. While looking for photos I found these pictures of a barefoot unknown girl walking to Drummey’s car in the morning on 8/16/08. Max then was spotted loading cases into his car. He was with a friend so it could have been the other guy’s girlfriend/date, but the photo agency was suggesting he may have been cheating. This was after he married Peaches, but they’ve since been seen out together. Credit for those maybe-cheating photos: Bauergriffinonline. Peaches is also shown out with Cory Kennedy at the Diesel Rock n Roll Circus in NYC on 10/11/08. Credit: Fame Pictures

There’s something about late night partying in Vegas that works like a magnet to the 24-hour chapels in the city. Early Sunday morning, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony found themselves bored at Pure Nightclub at Caesar’s Palace and decided join friends Carlos Beltran and his wife, Jessica, in renewing their vows.

More than four years after saying “I do”, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony secretly renewed their vows in Las Vegas early Sunday morning, PEOPLE has learned.

Witnessed by two friends, the duo renewed the vows at Caesars Palace’s Forum Tower Penthouse at 3:15 a.m. Sunday after a night at Pure Nightclub, a rep for the hotel confirmed to PEOPLE. The service was officiated by Rev. Steven Smith.

“It was totally a spur of the moment thing,” a source said. “They decided around 12:30 in the morning that they wanted to do it and started calling for ministers.”

[From People]

Said to be in Sin City for Marc’s birthday, the couple spent Friday and Saturday nights at Vegas nightclubs and Criss Angel’s show, Believe. They were the first people to stay in Caesar’s Palace’s renovated Forum Tower Penthouse, which had just opened back up on Saturday. The two re-weddings took place in the suite’s rotunda.

Jennifer’s parents were unable to attend because they were with Max and Emme.

Anthony and Lopez have been married for a little over four years. I love the thought behind a celebration of dedication to each other by renewing your vows after 10, 20, 50 years, but what does renewing after 4 years and 4 months mean? We renew our driver’s licenses, our passports, and our library cards when they expire. I haven’t yet figured out the reason to renew marriage vows since they should still be pretty current after less than five years.

Oh, wait, I just thought of one. Negative press calling you a Scientolgist and a published interview you didn’t want public. Because there’s nothing better than love and a 4:00 am Vegas vow-renewal to boost your public image.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are shown in the header in Milan on 9/25/08. Lopez is shown below shopping on Robertson Boulevard on 10/10/08. Credit: WENN

There are a lot of things Paris Hilton doesn’t need more of. Sex tapes. Giant shoes. Impulsively purchased pets and the diamond-encrusted jewelry she uses to decorate them. And Paris definitely, definitely does need any more products with her name on them. While I used to admit that she was good at branding (i.e. slapping her name and taking credit for other people’s work) she’s definitely getting close to her saturation point, even for people that don’t follow gossip blogs (who became sick of her a long time ago).

Now Paris is working on her very own Vegas hot spot – and although she doesn’t mention a name, I’m pretty damn sure you can bet that it’ll have “Paris” splashed on it somewhere.

Paris Hilton wants a Las Vegas hotspot to call her own! “I’m in talks right now,” the nightclub-loving entrepreneur tells In Touch. “I think I found a really good space.” Paris should have no trouble getting people to line up.

“The Vegas crowds love her,” says a Las Vegas nightlife insider. “It’s a mob scene every time she arrives.” And while the heiress is coy about the details, she already has a name. “But I can’t tell anyone,” she says. “It’s not trademarked yet!”

[From In Touch]

I think the club’s theme should be modeled after Paris’ sex tape. They can hand out night vision goggles at the door so everyone looks kinda green. And then push some random pills in your hand so you stumble around with a glazed, confused look in your eyes while putting just about anything in your mouth that doesn’t run away first. Sounds like a winning idea. She can call it “The Paris Experience” or something like that. And then as soon as you leave you act really embarrassed and threaten to sue everyone involved. It’ll be a sure hit.

Here’s Paris visiting Tivoli in Copenhagen with boyfriend Benji Madden on Tuesday. I don’t think I’ve ever said this about her, but Paris actually looks pretty here. Images thanks to Fame.

Britney Spears and Kevin Federline both spent the weekend in Las Vegas – but by all accounts, they did so separately. Brit was there to celebrate Father’s Day with her dad, while Kevin was there to celebrate his own Father’s Day… albeit without his kids. Kevin was busy receiving an award for Father of the Year from Prive nightclub. Whoever thought a club would be handing out awards to doting parents? Can you say “cheap attempt to get quasi-famous people to hang out there?”

According to a source inside Vegas’ Mirage Hotel & Casino, where Brit and dad were holed up for the holiday, the singer spent her afternoon in Siegfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at The Mirage. “She swam side by side with the dolphins at the resort in a private pool,” says the insider. “Later she gushed over Siegfried & Roy’s six-week old tiger cubs in their special nursery at the Secret Garden taking pictures of the cubs with a female friend.”

The singer was so enamored, she even stopped by the habitat’s gift shop to pick up a plush tiger and plush lion, perhaps for her boys back in L.A.

[From OK Magazine]

Britney had to have her extensions redone after swimming with the dolphins. I can’t imagine how confusing it must be for a dolphin to look up and see Britney Spears next to it, trying to hang on to her matted non-human hair. If I were a dolphin, I’d get my ass to another pool before she clogged up the drain.

Brit spent the rest of her day at a topless-optional pool, though by TMZ’s account she kept her top on – though wore a sun dress so short she nearly exposed her bottom on several occasions.

K-Fed didn’t just party it up with a few friends in Vegas – he brought along his lawyer. Because nothing says “Good Times!!” Like Mark David Kaplan.

Looking dapper in a black suit and red tie, Federline, 30, arrived at Prive just before 1 a.m. with an entourage of about 30, including his divorce lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan. At a VIP table, Federline nodded his head to several hip-hop songs and paid little attention to the risqué fashion show that was happening on top of the club’s deejay booth.

At around 2:30 am, Federline headed to the back kitchen of the club, where he was presented with a “Father of the Year” trophy out of the public eye, an honor he told reporters “surprised” him.

[From People]

I doubt K-Fed was all that surprised, considering the club announced the “honor” several weeks ago. Before you think he’s actually a terrible dad, spending Father’s Day in Vegas while his kids are at home in L.A., People reports that he jetting home early Sunday morning to spend the day with Jayden and Sean.

It sounds like both Britney and Kevin had a good weekend and behaved themselves. You’d almost think they were semi-normal, real adults or something.

Here’s K-Fed arriving at Prive to be honored as ‘Father of the Year’ as part of Father’s Day weekend on Saturday. Header of Britney from June 10th. Images thanks to WENN.