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The Hills star, Lauren Conrad, debuted her hip new fashion line - The Lauren Conrad Collection - last night at Los Angeles Fashion Week. LC's Fall 2008 line fashion show was held at Smashbox Studios Tuesday in Culver City, Calif.

The night was a huge success for Lauren Conrad, 22, who's been going to school for fashion design and marketing. But don't expect to see the event on The Hills.

"I kinda like that it's separate. It's not something that I really want to be part of a reality television show. It's a career that I want beyond my 15 minutes of fame," Lauren Conrad told reporters at the show last night.

LC had a great supporting section as Whitney Port, Audrina Patridge, Lauren "Lo" Bosworth, and Brody Jenner were all on hand to cheer her on. Here are a few pics, one of LC and Lo, the other of Whitney and Audrina ...

Oh, and yes, believe it or not, former LC rival Kristin Cavallari did show up as we reported she might yesterday afternoon! Follow the jump for a bunch more pics from the fashion show, including more of Lauren and Kristin ...

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If you thought Nicole Richie mulling an offer to appear on Broadway was a sign of the apocalypse (or at least Broadway abandoning all standards), get this:

Kevin Federline may soon make his debut.

A source says Britney Spears' ex-husband may be heading to New York City in September to make his Broadway debut in Legally Blonde, the Tony-nominated musical adaptation of the hit film starring Reese Witherspoon.

"He's so excited!" a source close to K-Fed tells Us Weekly.

Why wouldn't he be? Surely they pay in pot and Doritos.

A sometime actor, former backup dancer and aspiring rapper, Kevin Federline will test his song-and-dance skillzz in a trio of roles â€" including the hot UPS guy.

"This is his chance to show the world what he can do," says a pal.

Now that he has full physical custody of sons Sean Preston, 2-and-a-half, and Jayden James, 18 months, they might join him in the Big Apple.

"This is his dream and he wants to bring the kids," says the insider. "Jamie and Lynne Spears promised to help him make it work."

K-Fed enjoys a good relationship with Britney Spears' parents despite a messy custody battle and a couple of massive meltdowns on her part.

A rep for the show says he is not scheduled "as of this time."

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady kissed a perfect season goodbye with a tremendous loss to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl February 3.

But at least he can cozy up to a cute gal. Not shabby for a runner-up.

Seriously, how sorry can you really feel for Tom Brady? Just look at these photos from the Ermenegildo Zegna store opening in New York.

Girlfriend Gisele Bundchen is one of the hottest, richest women on Earth, and even worse, they seem genuinely happy together. It's flat-out gross.

Some photos of Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen ...

As for the Super Bowl-winning quarterback, Eli Manning, he is still engaged to  cutie fiancee Abby McGrew. No supermodel, but pretty darn attractive herself!

The next music video from Britney Spears' album Blackout may shock you.

No, not because of any topless shots or orgasmic moaning, like in "Piece of Me," or for her parading around bored and forgetting the words she's lip-synching to like at the VMAs while performing "Gimme More."

In "Break the Ice," a smoking-hot, animated Britney Spears works her way through a futuristic environment. Why go the animated route?

"Since Britney Spears has been otherwise occupied this was a creative and fun way to do her next video," a source said, being rather diplomatic about it.

That's a nice way of saying crazy. Anyway, who do you think is hotter: Animated Britney Spears (2008) or real Britney Spears (circa 2001)? 

The Hills is known for catfights, so it's only fitting that one of its beloved stars take the stage with the Pussycat Dolls.

Okay, it makes no sense at all. But it's happening just the same.

Lauren Conrad's BFF and roommate, Audrina Patridge, will appear alongside the Las Vegas Pussycat Dolls show inside Pure Nightclub on March 28.

The event will celebrate the new season of The Hills. No word on whether Audrina will fill the vacancy left this week by the departure of Carmit Bachar.

Audrina Patridge will be an honorary member of PCD. 

Sources say that Patridge will don the skimpy burlesque outfit (hot!) that the Pussycat Dolls are famous for to introduce the performers.

What else she might do has yet to be determined, but celebrity hosts have sung, danced in a champagne glass, and swung from the ceiling on a swing.

Past hosts include Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards. Pretty good (and by good we mean dreadful) company for Audrina Patridge.

The Hills star Lauren Conrad has extended an olive branch to former Laguna Beach high school rival Kristin Cavallari, reports Life & Style.

NOTE: You can pretty much discount the validity of this piece of quote-unquote celebrity news right now, considering that it's from Life & Style.

Anyway, according to the magazine, "Lauren invited Kristin to her recent fashion show," says an insider. "And Kristin accepted!"

No idea why. Starved for attention? Perhaps she was just pissed at another Kristen for stealing her thunder and looking to get back into the spotlight.

The Lauren Conrad Collection is having its first runway show tonight at Smashbox Studios during Los Angeles Fashion Week.

Let's see if Kristin Cavallari shows - that way we'll know if this is real or the news equivalent of Ryan Shawhughes' and Ethan Hawke's love child.

We mean illegitimate, people.

Are Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad ready to bury the hatchet? 

The girls' feud began three years ago over their Laguna Beach co-star and JV Hollywood womanizer Stephen Colletti, now 22.

Both Kristin Cavallari and Lauren Conrad liked and sort of hooked up with the cutie, who later dated Heroes star Hayden Panettiere.

Kristin was rumored to be set for an appearance on The Hills this spring, but LC has shot down that Hills gossip on several occasions.

Maybe she's just keeping the secret under wraps?

Here's hoping for some sort of Kristin Cavallari-LC reconciliation... or failing that, a brutal, public cat fight would be entertaining, as well.

Just call him Dr. McDreamy ... on Grey's Anatomy and in real life!

Patrick Dempsey unveiled a cancer center in his name at the Central Maine Medical Center in his hometown of Lewiston, Maine, on Monday.

The Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope & Healing, which opens March 31, will offer education and support for cancer patients and their families.

The handsome Grey's Anatomy star, 42, says he was inspired after his mother successfully overcame ovarian cancer at the hospital.

"For a family to get a cancer diagnosis is devastating, and all the information out there can be overwhelming," Patrick Dempsey said.

"A lot of the Web sites I went to just didn't have enough information."

Patrick provided a seed grant for the center, will also take part in the center's public education campaign about cancer prevention and detection.

His sister, Mary, a hospital employee, will run the center.

Dempsey has been married to his wife, Jillian Dempsey, for eight years. They have twins, Darby and Sullivan, 1, and a daughter, Tallulah, 6.

With all the scandal we write about on The Hollywood Gossip, it's always nice to see that some celebrities are grounded and giving back to their community.

As we reported earlier, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was caught on a federal wiretap arranging to meet at a Washington hotel room on February 13 with a prostitute named Kristen from the Emperors Club VIP.

His political future is now in serious jeopardy.

An affidavit based on the wiretap of the prostitution ring told of a man identified as "Client 9" - Eliot Spitzer - paying $4,300 in cash, some of it credit for future trysts, some of it for sex with Kristen - a "petite, pretty, 5-feet-5, 105-pound brunette."

A defendant in the case, Temeka Rachelle Lewis, instructed Kristen to take a train from New York to D.C. for an encounter with Client No. 9 on February 13.

Kristen was told Eliot Spitzer would be "paying for everything - train tickets, cab fare from the hotel and back, mini bar or room service, travel time, and hotel."

A hooker named Kristen could bring down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

Court papers show that an Emperors Club agent was later told by Kristen that her evening with Client 9 went well. The agent said she had been told the client "would ask you to do things that ... you might not think were safe."

According to the papers, Kristen replied: "I have a way of dealing with that ... I'd be, like, listen, dude, you really want the sex?"

Goodness. In other Kristen-Eliot Spitzer news, David Letterman announced his "Top 10 Eliot Spitzer Excuses" last night. The list is, as follows:

1. I thought Bill Clinton legalized this years ago.
2. Wanted to be known as the Charlie Sheen of politics.
3. Whether it's a hooker or your wife, you're always paying for it... you married fellows know what I'm talking about.
4. Uh, tainted beef?
5. Haven't been myself since Roy Scheider died.
6. It's part of my new MTV prank show "Spitz'd."
7. Have you ever been to Albany?
8. Just trying to help the economy.
9. Hookers is fun.
10. Oh, come on. Like you were never involved in a prostitution ring.

The great Kevin Federline once guest-starred on CSI. Now it's time for his former spouse to take a turn on one of CBS' hit shows.

CBS has confirmed that Britney Spears will be a guest star on an episode of How I Met Your Mother this spring, playing a secretary.

"I was shocked that Madame Spears was willing to come and do some acting," star Neil Patrick Harris recently told Entertainment Tonight.

"She has not acted in awhile. This is a very interesting role. It is very not like her at all in real life in any of her previous chapters. She plays the secretary to another girl that Ted (Josh Radnor) is after. So, it will be very unlike any Britney we have seen before, and we have seen a lot of Britney recently."

We sure have, Neil. Harris is openly gay, so it's probably not doing much for him, but he's gotta be referring to crotch shots and/or Britney Spears nude pics.

Britney Spears' past acting experience includes the movie Crossroads (1999), and music videos such as "Everytime," where she was quite naked and suicidal. Nice.

Hopefully this role is funny and involves pants. Britney Spears was supposedly on the set of How I Met Your Mother yesterday in L.A., chatting with Radnor.

In other How I Met Your Mother guest star news, the lovely Vanessa Minnillo will also be appearing on the show's March 17 episode!

Justin Timberlake couldn't pass up a few shots at former flame Britney Spears when honoring Madonna at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony Monday.

"The world has always been full of Madonna wannabes," Timberlake said, introducing the Material Girl. "I might have even dated a couple."

The biggest-selling female artist in history, Madonna was formally inducted into Hall of Fame at a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

Justin Timberlake had the honor of recognizing Madonna before she made her own  speech. He made another Britney Spears crack as he concluded ...

"She has still found time to kiss someone I may or may not have publicly kissed myself while I was in the audience," Timberlake said of Madonna.

"Of course, you know, I was talking about Sean Penn."

Justin Timberlake introduced Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Madonna last night.

The 49-year-old pop star strode on stage, thanking Justin Timberlake - and some of the people who had helped her career, as well as her family and fans.

Madonna gave a raucous acceptance speech that included calling the audience "motherf*%$ers" and sharing sordid tales about her life in music.

She gleefully recalled when she met her long-time publicist Liz Rosenberg. She was "smoking a joint," Madonna said. She also told the crowd she split a tab of ecstasy with a music exec who she gave her first demo tape to.

Madonna then mimicked Michael Jackson in a squeaky voice, describing how she went after and stole Jackson's manager. Naturally.