Referring to Lance Bass and music together in the same sentence seems kind of weird, but there it is. The guy was the bass (ironically enough) in ‘Nsync, after all. Not exactly known for their Grammy-winning musical prowess. Remember the scary East Coast/West Coast rap feuds of the nineties? You know, the ones where rappers (and their assorted posses) were shooting other rappers (and their assorted posses) for being from the wrong side of the ocean? Well those flames are heating up again.

Lance Bass and 50 Cent (real name: Curtis James Jackson III) are releasing books at the same time, and even held their launch parties on the same night. At 50’s party in New York’s Philippe Tuesday, he told the New York Daily News that Bass better watch his back. “He doesn’t stand a chance,” the rapper said as he promoted his coffee-table book, 50 x 50. Later that night, at Bass’s own NYC launch party at hotspot Azza for his new tell-all book, Out of Sync: A Memoir, the former ‘N Sync member – who came out in 2006 to PEOPLE – hit back at the rapper.

“50’s going down, that’s all I have to say,” he joked. “50, I don’t want to playa-hate, but there’s a lot that my book has [that yours doesn’t]. Including, Bass says, two things in particular: “I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have any relationships with guys in that book. And I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have any space training, either.”

50 added, he’s been in this situation before. “With me, everything’s a competition, so I bet you the end of next week, I’ll be moving more copies than him,” 50 said. “This is the same competition – this is Kanye West and 50 Cent all over again!”

[From People]

Yeah I’m guessing there are no allusions to gay sex in 50’s coffee table book. Though that would make for one of the better coffee table books I’ve seen in a while. I’m really worried that one of these guys is going to knock the other one out (I’m guessing the weapon of choice will be a bottle of Vitamin Water or a tin of spike-inducing hair gel). There will be a big hullabaloo (because you know a lot of music feuds involve hullabaloos) and then their moms will meet at one of the MTV awards shows and embrace on stage, and everything will be more or less okay after that. This is pretty much Biggie and Tupac all over again.

Photos: WENN

Further details are emerging about those rape allegations against sorcerer David Copperfield. The word is that the 2 million dollars the Feds seized from his magic storehouse might have been payoff money. Yikes. Sources are saying that Copperfield was offering the alleged victim, an unidentified woman from Seattle, the money to quiet down and not press any charges. Hush money! It doesn't paint a pleasant picture. The victim reported that Copperfield invited her to a party at his compound in the Bahamas. When she got there, she discovered it was a party of two. *shiver*

"She got nervous and wanted to go home right away, but David convinced her to stay, saying she could leave the next day if she really wanted to," the friend claims.

That night, Copperfield forced himself on the woman, holding her arms "down on the bed, leaving her with terrible bruises," the friend charges.

"She told me she fought back," the friend says. "But she said that just seemed to turn him on more."

"After Copperfield had finished with her and left to clean off, the young woman had the presence of mind to use her cell phone to take photos of the crime scene," according to the tab. "In order to preserve physical evidence, she says she didn't shower. The next day, she went back home to Seattle, where her mother met her at the airport."

The victim reportedly also went straight to a medical center, where a rape kit was taken. The FBI reportedly used the woman in a sting operation on Copperfield, and had her e-mail him and arrange to meet in Vegas. If this is true, magic is no longer magical to me. I expect to see Harry Potter punching babies next.

Sean “Puffy” Combs got into a “physical altercation” (that’s PR fancy speak for a fight) with an old friend on October 13. Though it was widely reported at the time that the fight was over a girl (who wasn’t present) Puffy is now denying that claim. He’s saying it was just a fight – and he’s human, so he’s bound to get into them, and can he really help it? No. Apparently normal people get into fights all the time. According to Puffy. To be fair, we probably do, we just don’t punch people out in fancy NYC nightclubs. Or maybe that’s me.

Sean “Diddy” Combs wants to set the record straight on claims he assaulted a man at a New York City nightclub earlier this month. “It was something that was just totally overblown … I don’t fight over girls!” Combs said Wednesday, referring to a altercation Oct. 13 in a downtown Manhattan club, where Steven Acevedo, 31, accused Combs, 37, of punching him twice in the face. “I got into an argument, I am a human being. I am going to get into an argument,” Combs told Access Hollywood. “I am making no denial about that, but I did not punch anybody.”

Earlier this month, a source told PEOPLE that Combs and Acevedo have known each other for more than 10 years, and said reports that the disagreement was over a woman were not true. “I’m staying focused on being a role model and you know, being somebody that all my grandmas and aunties out there can be proud of and tell their kids to look up to you, know what I’m saying,” he added. “I mean it is a part of celebrity … but it just wasn’t true.”

[From People]

So his argument is that it’s not a big deal because he doesn’t get into fights over girls? I mean that’s a good thing and all, but to me the issue is that you knocked out another guy. Who you’d known for 10 years. That doesn’t exactly reek of classiness my friend.

Puff Doodle was on “The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch” last night, and came off as remarkably humble. I’m pretty sure it’s because he’s a good businessman and in show business, so he knows how to act. He’s never struck me that way before. He seemed relatively mild and soft-spoken. I was almost suckered in… and then he actually reached through the television and sucker punched me in the face. That’s when I remembered the golden rule: never trust Puffy not to punch you.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s Puffy and his entourage promoting his Sean John clothing line at Ibiza Nightclub DC the night before the fight. Images thanks to WENN.

I hope you enjoyed my football pun in the title because that is all I’ve got when it comes to sport related humor. I am as familiar with football as Peter Doherty is familiar with a shower. The celeb-fueled story involves the adorable Carrie Underwood and former flame Tony Romo of the Cowboys. The two called in quits recently and have already moved on. Carrie admitted that she knew her relationship with the quarterback was “doomed” from the start. Football came first and people started blaming poor performances on his focus on the beautiful Ms. Underwood.

Underwood says, “He is about football… I don’t think he’s at the point in his life where he would be willing to sacrifice football. He hated so much that people thought he was paying more attention to me and that was causing him to not do so well.”

[Starpulse]

Translation, “I was becoming the Yoko Ono of the NFL.” While Carrie moved on with Chace Crawford of “Gossip Girl,” Tony has a new lady in his life, Sophia Bush of “One Tree Hill.” Both shows are on the CW. Sophia was dating Jon Foster in August, but that doesn’t seem to matter as things between Sophia and Romo are rumored to be getting serious. Meanwhile, Carrie and Chace have made a dinner public a few days ago. The new twosome had dinner at Justin Timberlake’s restaurant “Southern Hospitality.” The date was report to last “well into the next morning.” Do celebs do the walk of shame?

Picture note by Celebitchy: Carrie Underwood is shown performing on Good Morning America on 10/23/07. Chace Crawford is shown on on 9/20/06 at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Joel Madden and Nicole Richie were recently in Australia while his band, Good Charlotte was on tour there. Madden said he loved it so much that he’s going to look for a condo there. He said he’s interested in spending at least a full season in Australia every year:

Joel said recently: “People keep saying to us ‘how come you spend so much time down there?’ and I just say that it’s the best place in the world.”

He added that they would love to spend a minimum of three months a year down under and are looking to buy a home together: “I’m going to have a look around tomorrow for a place, a nice condo.”

“It’s only one flight man. The lifestyle here is insane.

[From Fametastic]

Anything that keeps Nicole Richie away from the paparazzi for large chunks of time sounds like a good idea to me. Once she has the baby she’ll probably start parading it around LA in little golden strollers and designer clothes like Gwen Stefani did with Kingston.

The big Star cover story about how Nicole Richie is having “Pregnancy Trouble!” isn’t really much more than Richie being worried over Braxton Hicks contractions, which are mild sporadic contractions that are common in pregnancy and nothing to worry about. Six-months-pregnant Richie is said to be “constantly worrying about having a miscarriage,” and “a basket case” after some minor Braxton Hicks contractions in Australia while she was there with boyfriend Joel Madden made her fear that she was having premature labor:

Nicole Richie got the scare of a lifetime while she was thousands of miles away from home in an Australian hotel. The six-months-pregnant star was relaxing in her room with rocker boyfriend Joel Madden, who’s been on his Good Charlotte tour Down Under, when “she felt a deep pain in her lower abdomen like her stomach was seizing up. She believed she was going into labor.”

Although Nicole’s doctor told her it was just a Braxton Hicks contraction (when the uterus “practices” for labor) and perfectly normal, she’s still afraid the baby could be born prematurely. Says the source, “Her stress level is through the roof.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 29, 2007]

The article goes on to quote a doctor who provides a scary picture of how Richie’s baby would be fighting for its life if it were born at this point, as if that’s even an issue. And of course they speculate on what would happen to her unborn baby if she continued to do drugs and alcohol, when it’s pretty clear that she gave all that up when she figured out she was pregnant.

What’s more interesting to me is how Nicole is said to be acting like a total bitch, being typically rude to Joel’s fans and to the help. He’s said to be “mortified” by her behavior. At least she gets a pregnancy pass, but what excuse is she going to have once the baby is out?

Nicole Richie is shown on 10/2/07 carrying a couple of candy bars and walking to her car in Beverly Hills. Thanks to WENN for this photo.

It seems that pop star idols of past and present have found themselves inexplicably drawn towards one another. Constantine Maroulis and Deborah Gibson were seen holding hands in NYC this past Tuesday after the two met at a Broadway revival of Grease this past summer. Maroulis cited a background in theater, as well as shared friends as reasons for their connection.

"She's a sweetheart," he tells Us. "She's classy, has built a nice career and doesn't drink or do drugs. We're close, and it's cool."

The only thing I worry for this relationship is the inevitable argument over who used the last of the hair serum. Also, why is he dressed like Charlie Chaplin?

Photos: WENN

More photos of Deborah Gibson and American Idol alum Constantine Maroulis are after the jump.

Photos: WENN

Find out who she is after the jump.

The young up-and-coming actor, Emile Hirsch, who stars in Sean Penn's pet project, "Into the Wild," as well as the upcoming "Speed Racer," sat down with MTV for an interview, to chat about his acting career. Of course, as they always do, the interview took a turn for the bizarre, when the interviewer asked Emile about the rumor that he'd performed karaoke with none other than one our favorite train wrecks, Miss Lindsay Lohan.

Hirsch: Oh, yeah. It was one time!

MTV: It's even listed on your IMDb page. Does that bother you?

Hirsch: Oh, I don't care. Who cares?

MTV: What did you sing?

Hirsch: "Superman" by Eminem.

MTV: Was it a duet? Or did you just each take a turn?

Hirsch: I think it was just like each take a turn, yeah.

MTV: That's a memory.

Hirsch: Yeah, it was fun.

He sounds adorable and looks fresh-faced and about twelve years old, with that big smile on his face. That's why it makes the image of him singing karaoke with gravelly-voiced, fake-tanned, highlighted Lindsay, with her plump collagen lips and smoke smell even that more hilarious to me. I could see her looking over at him after their song and saying, "Kid, you're going places. Let's head back to my hotel room," and then him saying, "OK, lady. You smell like my grandma who lives in Miami and likes to brag that she did the nasty with Frank Sinatra."

Photos: WENN/Getty Images

More photos of Lindsay Lohan and Emile Hirsch are after the jump.

I was looking through photos of The Elizabeth: The Golden Age premiere in London a couple days ago and I thought “What was Victoria Beckham doing there?” But it turns out the person in question is even less qualified to show up at a movie premiere, it was a little-known UK Big Brother contestant named Chanelle Hayes. Hayes has made somewhat of a career out of imitating Posh, right down to her outfits and vacant pout. I have to say she has it down, and she adds some much-needed curves and a more aquiline nose to Posh’s look.

After leaving the Big Brother UK House Hayes went to LA and started prancing around looking like Posh and hoping to get noticed, and she was - a little. People mostly commented on what a nuisance she was:

She’s not even in the house any more, but Chanelle Hayes continues to wind me up. Not content with iimitating Victoria Beckham in this country, Chanelle is currently stalking her idol all over L.A. - and when I say “stalking”, I’m really not joking - I’m surprised the Beckhams haven’t taken out an injunction against her.

Chanelle travelled to L.A. last week. Since her arrival, she’s been mostly hanging around Rodeo Drive dressed up as Posh, hoping that Victoria will rock up and become her new BFF. She also attended an LA Galaxy game, where, despite being refused entry to the VIP enclosure ( I wonder why?) Chanelle still managed to steal some of the limelight from Victoria - now we know why Posh was so stony-faced when David scored that goal last week. Chanelle then made a point of telling everyone who would listen how “gorgeous” David is, and how she has “fallen for him”. Yeah. What a great way to make friends with Victoria Beckham - follow her around dressed up as her, then go on about how much you fancy her husband. That’ll totally work, Chanelle!

[From BigBlogger.co.uk]

As for Posh, she’s in no hurry to meet Hayes. The same blog quotes her as saying that she’s “flattered that Chanelle is a fan, but is in no hurry to meet her”.

Victoria Beckham was recently grilled by a British DJ about whether her boobs were real. On the Radio 1 breakfast show, host Chris Moyles blurted “Everybody knows they’re fake, Victoria, just admit it – we don’t have a problem with them. Seriously, you go jogging without a bra and they don’t move.” Without missing a beat, Posh said “I don’t go jogging,” but refused to acknowledge the question. She also said that David “loves them” when the interviewer compared them to an early Christmas present.

Chanelle Hayes is shown at the “Elizabeth: The Golden Age” premiere on 10/24/07. Victoria Beckham is shown in Paris at the beginning of the month. Thanks to Splash News for these pics.

REPO! The Genetic Opera - and instant camp classic!