Gossip / Rumors

Here's how it all went down: Our cameras found Tyrese on a mall trip with Brandy in Century City -- but it was clear T didn't want to be seen. In fact, it seemed like Tyrese sent B to distract the pappers, so he could sneak down the back staircase.

But when Ty went to the valet, Harvey just happened to be there, waiting for his car ... and when the photog kept firing questions at Tyrese, the actor confronted Harv while the cameras rolled. Guess what happens next...

Britney Spears is talking to NBC about performing live at the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony on December 3.

Our spies say the deal isn't sealed yet, but it's close.

Brad Pitt allegedly was none too happy about Jen Aniston slamming his baby mama in Vogue mag.

The Chicago Sun-Times cites a "very close source" of Brangelina who says AJ and BP were "totally thrown" by the Aniston interview, in which she said Ange was "uncool" for yapping about the beginnings of Brangelina in public. So much so, a source tells the paper, Brad actually called Jen to complain.

Now that she's back to being just a housewife -- with a day job running Alaska -- Sarah Palin could be perfect for "Desperate Housewives."

A source tells the New York Post the creator of "DH" is "very hot to trot" to get Palin on the season finale of the show. "Marc [Cherry] is highly enamored of Sarah and sees her as the ultimate guest star," says the source. "The idea has gone over surprisingly well with execs at Disney."

What if a sublebrity's name got called in an airport -– and nobody cared?

Such was Lauren Conrad's conundrum the other day at JFK, when an airline attendant called out her name to direct her to a counter ... for a standby ticket. LC was none too pleased: She "pitched a fit," a spy tells the New York Post, "and was almost driven to tears because she thought people would start talking to her and bother her."

Believe what you want about Chace Crawford, but this is just plain humiliating: He got drunk under the table by girls.

So say Rush & Molloy, who report he was at Justin Timberlake's BBQ joint Southern Hospitality the other night, and got challenged to a pitcher duel by a trio of girls. Chace and co. found themselves on the losing end, and Chace himself was left red-faced, and not just because he got schooled.

He didn't get close to the White House and now things are real stinky for John Edwards.

According to the New York Daily News, a poopy diaper snatched by a National Enquirer reporter from the Beverly Hilton could be the evidence that proves Edwards is the father of his mistress Rielle Hunter's baby. "All they need is a cup he drank from," says a source, to prove he's the baby daddy, which he's steadfastly denied.

George Clooney could have just about any woman in the world, but there is just something about Krista Allen he can't resist.

Or so say Rush & Molloy, who report "friends" of George say he's back with Allen, whom he dated from 2002-04. He moved on to Lisa Snowden (pretty brunette) and then Sarah Larson (pretty brunette), and now he's returned to ... yes, the pretty brunette.

Blimey! Could Oprah Winfrey give up her post as Queen of All Media to be ... Barack Obama's British ambassador?

Yeah, we know it sounds ridiculous -– and the Financial Times admits it does, too –- but "well-placed sources" are floating the rumor. They argue since O's been such an ardent B.O. proponent, she could have her pick of plum embassy jobs.

Travis Barker just can't break that Shanna Moakler spell. One of our staffers spotted them last night eating dinner together at an Italian restaurant in the San Fernando Valley, just days after he returned to L.A. Travis even took a picture with our dude.

Travis, who was limping badly, told us he's just happy to be alive after the plane crash. Shanna says she's been very emotional and "crying a lot."

You'll recall, last week Travis blogged that he hadn't seen Shanna since the week he checked into the hospital (September 20). For her part, last week Shanna not-so-cryptically said "With great tragedy comes great truths. These truths either bring people together or tear them apart."

It's a celebrity wedding with invited guests like Tom Brady and John Travolta, and Coldplay as the houseband. So which mega-couple is getting hitched? Sara Blakely and Jesse Itzler.

Um, who?

Blakely was the runner-up on the short-lived Richard Branson reality series, "The Rebel Billionaire." Jesse Itzler was once a rapper known as Jesse Jaymes. He had mild success with something called "Shake It (Like A White Girl)" -- he also wrote the New York Knicks theme song, "Go New York, Go!"

Both have gone on to have crazy success -- Blakely owns a women's undergarment company called SPANX and Itzler is Co-Founder and Vice-Chairman of Marquis Jet, a leading private jet company.

Janet Jackson has already bailed on ten concerts since Sept. 29, and now it looks like the rest of the dominoes could fall as well.

She's also going to pull out of shows in DC, Jersey, and Atlanta this week, reports the New York Post, and a source says Ms. Jackson "should cancel all her dates now." All the cancellations have been very last minute.

So there's a rumor out there that Kim Kardashian may be back on "Dancing with the Stars" after Misty May tapped out with an Achilles tendon injury.

Here's what we know. Kim is flying back from New Orleans tomorrow. Our source in the know says she's coming home "to meet with ABC execs about her future with the show."

Here's the weird part: We're told KK's partner, Mark Ballas, has not been contacted about coming back.

For the second time in about a week, the paps spotted Jimmy Kimmel out with his ex, Sarah Silverman. The two say they're "just friends" -- but do friends put their hand where Jimmy's looks like it is?

After a family brawl left former WWE legend Ric Flair with a black eye and his daughter tased by police, wrestling blogs have been laying the Smackdown on TMZ.

Wrestling fans are buzzing that our stories put the kibosh on an endorsement The Nature Boy had with Coke. Whoa Nelly! Flair never had an endorsement with Coke -- at least that's what Flair's peeps say.

But think about Flair doing a concealer ad for Revlon. Now you're talkin ...