- Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight was in a three-car crash yesterday. He was not injured, but two other people were taken to the hospital by ambulance. [LA Times]
- The President Of The United States, Barack Obama, was on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno last night. He brought lulz (More later). [NY Daily News]
- Barack Obama made a joke about the Special Olympics and for that he is sorry. [NY Daily News]
- Here’s a picture of Chris Brown getting off of a private jet and riding a bike around on the tarmac like he’s having the time of his life. Raise your hand if it makes you feel stabby. [TMZ]
- Jennifer Aniston is narrating a children’s book. Cue the ZOMG SHE WANTS BABIEZ headlines. [Gatecrasher]
- Are Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel on a fast train to Splitsville? [Perez, Chicago Sun-Times]
- When Beyoncé stopped at Patricia Field the other day, she spent $11,000 in 20 minutes. How come didn’t get us anything? [Page Six]
- It’s a big weekend at the box office, with lots of stars: Nicolas Cage, Paul Rudd, Jason Segel, Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. Plus, Amy Adams‘s Sunshine Cleaning will move into additional theaters. What to see? [Reuters]
- “Five Reasons Julia Roberts Is Too Old (or Not).” Wait, what? [E!]
- This article asks “Is John Hamburg (the writer/director of I Love You Man) The New Judd Apatow?” [LA Times]
- Actual headline: “Miley Cyrus Shakes Her Ass For Paps.” And it’s not on Perez! [E!]
- For some reason there is a feud between Chris Jericho and Mickey Rourke. Jericho says when Rourke comes to Wrestlemania, he will “get out of the ring, walk over to Mickey, and slap him in the face.” Lame. [Gatecrasher]
- Someone is pregnant on The Office. [E!]
- Speaking of The Office, did you dig Idris Elba? He has a Twitter. [EW]
- A Sheryl Crow/Stevie Nicks tour? Maybe! [Gatecrasher]
- There’s a new Facebook group called UCLA Students Against James Franco as Commencement Speaker. It’s jut mean! [E!]
- Dane Cook‘s half-brother and former business manager was indicted Thursday on eight counts of larceny; he’d been funneling millions from Cook’s business accounts. No joke there. [E!]
- Real Housewives Of Orange County star Gretchen Rossi was spotted making out with Slade Smiley. [TMZ]
- Nick Lachey pitched a reality show to MTV and they liked it! Taking The Stage is about kids at a performing arts school (his alma mater in Cincinnati). Kinda like Fame, if you’re old enough to remember hot lunch. [LA Times]
- Debra Messing is named in a lawsuit involving a traffic accident in which her car struck a police officer, even though Messing wasn’t driving the car. [TMZ]
- The cast of the new Star Trek flick is heading to Australia; the movie will make its world premiere at the Sydney Opera House on April 7. No word if that guy with the Kirk chair will get to go. [Yahoo News via Reuters]
- Not only is Vanessa Williams awesome on Ugly Betty, she is working on a new album. “I had been wanting to do a Latin-flavored album since I played a ballroom dancer in the (salsa) movie Dance With Me,” Williams says. [USA Today]
- Ooh, Elle Macpherson on TV! The CW show is called Beautiful Life, and she’ll okay the owner of a modeling agency, naturally. [Reuters]
- Hmm, Mary J. Blige is joining the cast if the next Tyler Perry movie. Love her; not sure about him. [Reuters]
- Gossip Girl fans: Check out this new clip that’s popped up: Chuck vs. Dorota! [People]
- Whitney Port and actor Robert Buckley were seen making out all over Miami. Hopefully someday soon we can stop thinking about these semi-famous [E!]
- There is a new romcom in the works called Merman. Yes, it is about a man who is half fish. He “comes to land so he can win back his mermaid fiance, who has left him for a real man.” I’m not lying when I say it’s produced by the dude who brought you Splash. [EW, Variety]
- Tara Reid has a job! She’s been cast in an untitled horror film, in which she will play a mother whose family is terrorized by an unsees presence. [Variety]
- Former Soul Train host Don Cornelius has been sentenced to three years probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor spousal battery. [Reuters]
- Blind item! “Which engaged young couple shocked an entire film crew when they were caught having sex on set?” [Gatecrasher]
- Blind item: “Which hip-hop fashion team is taking more credit than it deserves? While most designers acknowledge their assistants do much of the work, this up-and-coming pair accept kudos but never mention the staff in the back who actually make it happen.” [Page Six]
- “I remember a performance of The Fantasticks where a mom brought a teenage son with Tourette’s syndrome to the show. It was explained to me that because he liked me a lot, it became especially difficult for him to control his outbursts when I came on stage. Every time I said or sang anything, he would snort, howl or bellow some expletive about bodily functions or female anatomy, [and drop] F-bombs.” — Kristin Chenoweth, in her memoir, A Little Bit Wicked. [Page Six]
- “I like all the Wii games. Love Guitar Hero. Growing up, I liked Tetris. I even like BrickBreaker on the BlackBerry. [My first console was] a Nintendo. I would play Super Mario Bros. We weren’t supposed to play it after nine o’clock, and I would sneak and play all night. I loved it.” — Beyoncé. [Mirror]
- “I had my tonsils taken out [at age 13], and they gave me liquid Vicodin. I found, when I take this, people like me. I’m having fun, I’m not getting picked on. It became a confidence thing.” — Kelly Osbourne, who says she is finally completely clean after a month in rehab. [People]
- “I am shirtless and I have back hair in Observe And Report, and it’s glorious. They did have me shave my back for Knocked Up. Judd Apatow said, ‘People are not ready for a hairy back in a sex scene. We’re just not there yet as a society.'” — Seth Rogen. [Page Six]
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