• Kate Hudson is filling the hole Madonna left in Alex Rodriguez‘ free time.

• After a couple of obscenity-riddled meltdowns, Susan Boyle has been placed in a safe house by Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan to preserve her sanity before the show’s finale tomorrow.

• Angelina Jolie bumped her head and bled while shooting an action sequence on the set of her movie Salt. No ovaries were harmed during filming. 

• One down, one to go. NBC movie critic Jeffrey Lyons has been fired, while his son Ben Lyons continues to waste air time on the syndicated At the Movies. 

• American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi tells Barbara Walters that she never for a moment thought Adam Lambert wasn’t gay. 

• Jon & Kate Plus Hate. The Gosselins‘ reality show will go on in spite of their imminent divorce. Or because of. Producers are looking for camera-friendly digs for Jon.

• A Los Angeles judge has sentenced music producer Phil Spector to 15-years-to-life for second-degree murder and four years for personal use of a gun. Plus restitution payments. 

• Two and a Half Mental. Jon Cryer‘s wife, actress Sarah Trigger Cryer, has been arrested on felony child abuse charges involving rope burns on a child’s neck.

• Vogue editrix Anna Wintour abruptly cut off all communication with Rihanna and nixed her cover shoot when nude photos of the singer surfaced on the net.