Nicole Richie was shopping at Kitson in LA, where she picked up a bunch of overpriced bangles. They were probably too heavy for her frail arms because she fainted dead away:

So the bangles may have been purchased on another shopping trip when she wasn’t so unwell. What’s important is that she declined food because there weren’t any paparazzi in the store to photograph her eating it.

I fainted a couple of different times after giving blood, so I just don’t do it anymore. It’s pretty suspect that Nicole is fainting, but she’s actually gained a smidgeon of weight. It could be due to low blood sugar or the heat, she’s right. Fainting is defined as:

Richie could certainly be hungry or upset . I remember when Angelina Jolie fainted at the airport a while ago. It turned out she was pregnant. I’m just saying. It’s more likely that Nicole is hungry, but she has been spending a lot of time with her ex, DJ AM, lately. They even dress alike, although he looks like he’s running away from her in these pictures.

Here are recent pictures of Richie with AM, buying a cat, and at the beach. [via and via]

Tori Spelling’s not pregnant, so there’s no excuse for that weird satin number she was wearing a few weeks ago. She’s also due to inherit a large portion of her father’s $500 million estate, so she really doesn’t give a shit if her cheating pageant-winner mom likes her or not:

Obviously Tori knew that she didn’t have to get into her mother’s good graces to cash in on her inheritance or she wouldn’t have talked so openly about getting snubbed by her family.

Let me just apologize for the lack of posting lately. It’s hot as hell here in eco-friendly Switzerland without air conditioning, and my son’s babysitter is on vacation. To encourage me to continue digging celebrity gossip, please visit the sponsors. Thank you!

Here is Tori at the Much Music awards in Canada last month. [via]

Former X-Files star Gillian Anderson, 37, left her second husband, documentary filmmaker Julian Ozanne, 42, after just 16 months. They announced their split at the end of April.

Anderson is pregnant now with her second child and is dating a new guy, but she’s visibly pregnant, and looks like she’s about five months along. That means that either she got pregnant by her estranged husband and will be raising his baby with another guy (which is similar to what Heidi Klum did with Seal) or that she was pregnant by her boyfriend and that could be the reason she split up with her husband:

We speculated back in April that Anderson’s relationship with her second husband was probably on the rocks because she seemed to be drinking too much. She suffered from drunken air rage (although one can hardly blame her, with the stress of flying and all) and looked visibly drunk in these candids of her out with her then-husband.

Hopefully she’s laying off the sauce now that’s she’s pregnant and maybe she’ll find happiness with her latest beau. It’s not too promising that he runs a “wheel-clamping” business, though. Who doesn’t hate those guys?

Here are pictures of Anderson from March out with her husband. She is seen at the Belle Epoque Dinner on 3/16 and in some candids looking visibly soused. Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton are also shown. The first set of pictures you may have seen before, but the second set are new to me. [via]

Thanks to HotMommaDrama for reporting this first.

Singer George Michael was caught trawling for sex in a public place yet again. He was forced to come out in 1998 after being caught in a sting by an attractive policeman in a public bathroom in Los Angeles. He made fun of the incident in the video for his song “Outside” and talked about his shame on Oprah. Now that he’s been caught having sex with a nasty old guy he’s not going to play it off so easily.

News of the World followed the poor guy that George fondled back to his squalid flat in Brighton. They interviewed the guy and he gave the sordid details:

That’s nice that George didn’t make fun of the old dude for whatever weird thing he’s got going on down there. Maybe he’s a woman or something. Whatever you’re into.

When confronted by The News of The World snoops, who were either in the park for some random fun themselves or who routinely trail George Michael, George said “Are you gay? No? Then f*** off! This is my culture!”

That’s like saying it’s heterosexual culture to hook up with prostitutes, isn’t it?

George Michael is about to embark on a 50-concert comeback tour, which sold out in a half hour.

Here are some low-res pictures from the article. They’re too good not to publish.

“You, Me, and Dupree” is not doing so bad at the box office, and is in fourth place on its second weekend out. “Pirates” is still kicking ass at first place, of course. “You Me, and Dupree” is supposed to royally suck, though, and is getting panned by critics.

Kate Hudson won a recent libel award from the British arm of The National Enquirer. Celebrities sue the British and Irish offshoots of US gossip magazines to get around US libel laws, which shield publications from damages unless it can be proven that they acted from malice. (So basically the US gossip rags can make shit up and no one can sue them.) Britney Spears is now suing 8 gossip magazines from offshore in the hopes of scoring some cash to feed her estranged husband’s fast lifestyle.

Hudson was refuting a report that she was dangerously thin and that her mother, Goldie Hawn, was worried for her health. She won an undisclosed settlement from the magazine.

Here is Hudson looking like an elf at the July 23rd Australian premiere of “You, Me, and Dupree” with annoying Owen Wilson. She shouldn’t wear her hair back because it certainly isn’t flattering to her face. [via]

This sounds like fake news because it’s just too good to be true, but David Hasselhoff has embraced his campy image and is going to star in a musical based on his life!

Hasselhoff is definitely not afraid to make fun of himself, as evidenced by his appearance in the Spongebob Movie:

And here’s his “Hooked on a Feeling” video, which you’ve probably already seen since it’s clocked hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube. I was laughing my ass off watching this movie. Try not to be amused:

That’s awesome that Hasselhoff is going to make a musical - it sounds like a parody from “The Simpsons” (Dr. Zaius, Dr. Zaius!)

Good on ‘ya David Hasselhoff, the aussies are going to love your work.

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.

Someone was sending nasty text messages to Lindsay Lohan’s friends, and the messages sounded suspiciously like Paris Hilton’s junior-high put downs. Paris has denied being the culprit because of course she couldn’t hack anything. It’s possible she figured out the password or had someone help her, though:

Whatever. Like we really care about either of these two anymore. They’re fun to watch in a car-crash kind of way.

Hilton says that “certain girls use [her]” to get attention. As if she’s not the one clamouring for attention all the time:

There’s something seriously wrong with talking about yourself in the third person. Paris is non-confrontational. She’s so non-confrontational she has to make up stories about fights she’s had with other girl celebrities and try to spread them around. Those girls must have wanted attention so badly that they psychically willed Paris to involve them in fantasy fights.

Here’s Paris with her sister Nicky in some older bikini candids and doing recent promotion for her single in Costa d’en Blanes and Palma de Mallorca on July 23 and 22. [via]

-Barbara Walters has pulled on two of the black guest hosts’ hair on “The View” and asked if it was real! [The Chic Mommy]
- Jennifer Aniston drunk dials Brad Pitt [Mollygood]
- Tara Reid and her Tarafying stomach! [The Bastardly]
- Anna Nicole Smith continues to battle for the millions she should get for pleasuring that withered old dude she married [popbytes]
- Janet and Jermaine in Atlanta [Juicy News]
- The Beckhams are trying for a girl [In Case U Didn't Know]
- Pam Anderson and Kid Rock wedding photo [Celebrity Mound]
- Mariah Carey performs in Tunis in short shorts [PopSugar]
- Kim Cattrall’s ad is too sexy for New Zealand [yeeeah]
- Christina Aguilera promotes her ass off [A Socialite's Life]
- Ashlee Simpson is made of plastic [Jordan is your Homeboy]
- Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza is Miss Universe. Does anyone watch that shit anymore? [Faded Youth]
- Paris Hilton keeps calling Lindsay Lohan “firecrotch” [Hot Momma Drama]

Tom Cruise was said to be on Spielberg’s bad side after diverting promotion from “War of the Worlds” to his own crazy cult battle against the pharmaceuticals he so desperately needs. It turns out there’s yet another reason for Spielberg to be pissed at Cruise: Scientologists showed up to protest the very psychiatrist Spielberg lauded to Cruise in a personal conversation:

Meanwhile Cruise might be dropped by his studio, Paramount. MI3 didn’t overwhelm at the box office, and Spielberg’s Dreamworks is now owned by Paramount, making Tom’s relationship with Spielberg even more important.

Cruise showed up at the Chicago film festival’s tribute to Spielberg in an attempt to make up with the director and salvage his tanking career.

It was also rumored that Cruise went to Spielberg’s office a month ago with non-existent baby Suri to do a personal photo session with Spielberg. This is obviously untrue, and Spielberg’s spokesperson says that the question of the pictures existing “will never be answered.”

People say Spielberg looked uncomfortable with Cruise at the film festival tribute, and you can see the photos below.

Cruise’s involvement with Scientology has only hindered his career and damaged his relationships with key players. Either he’s too brainwashed to get out now, or the cult has such powerful secrets against him that he will never try.

Maybe we’ll all find out what’s going on, or at least be entertained by more juicy gossip, when Andrew Morton’s tell-all Cruise biography comes out.

Here are pictures of Cruise with Spielberg at the film festival that we published earlier.