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One thing we've learned in the past few weeks is that a Heidi Montag music video is nothing if not a conversation starter.

Despite a flurry of criticism over her debut, "Higher," that supposedly left her in tears, the Hills star is planning another video soon!

What's more, this one will "blow people's minds very soon," Montag's beau, former fiancé and sometimes director Spencer Pratt told People.

Due out within a month, Pratt says the new project will be more conceptual but "very simple, and very entertaining, just like the last one."

One can only hope Heidi Montag's next video features shots like this.

Heidi Montag says she has been eagerly plugging away at her "musical career," working in the studio "every night for about two months."

But don't expect everything to sound like "Higher." Mercifully.

"It's all different," the co-star and former BFF of Lauren Conrad said. "There's some edgier stuff, they're some fun dance tracks â€" it's everything. It's definitely going to be different than what everyone suspects."

Citing artists such as Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue, Christina Aguilera and even the Beatles (!?) as influences, Montag explained her inspirations simply, saying, "I feel like all artists inspire music in one way or another."

Heidi and Spencer, however, merely inspire nausea.

Mary-Louise Parker and actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan are engaged!

They have been telling friends that they're planning to swap vows, according to the New York Daily News.

The pair began dating in 2006, but briefly split in June 2007.

They were back on as of December when Parker accompanied Jeffrey Dean Morgan to the premiere of his movie, P.S. I Love You.

She has a 4-year-old son, William, with her ex-fiance, Billy Crudup. Mary-Louise Parker also recently adopted a baby girl from Africa.

Jeffrey Dean and Mary-Louise make a cute pair. 

Morgan, who may be best known for a memorable stint on Grey's Anatomy, plays her dead husband on her Showtime hit series, Weeds.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Miami police say O.J. Simpson's girlfriend, Christie Prody, suffered bruises and head injuries on Monday - but it was because of a fall - and not at the hand of the Juice, as several celebrity gossip sources speculated.

Hey, the guy did beat up various wives and kill one of them, so in this case, we can understand why The National Enquirer might jump the gun.

The Enquirer reported that O.J. Simpson was being investigated as Christie Prody was taken to a Miami hospital with head trauma and bruising.

According to the Enquirer, investigators said from the damage to Christie Prody's body, they believe she was beaten up hard. One detective even said he has never seen such severe bruises on a woman before.

Christie Prody: O.J. Simpson's girlfriend for years. Why? Who knows.

The Miami Police were alerted by hospital authorities after doctors found that Christie Prody was bleeding from her brain â€" and also had numerous, large bruises and abrasions on her face, arms, legs and buttocks.

But cops later told the celebrity news site TMZ that Prody's injuries appear to be "consistent" with a fall she supposedly took "at a gas station."

They don't consider this a criminal case, and that O.J. was never a suspect.

Prody, who has a long rap sheet of her own, has been going out with this guy for years and hasn't turned up dead, so we'd consider the relationship a success.

As for O.J. Simpson, his recent arrest for violation of bail was aired on the MyNetwork series Jail. He's due in Las Vegas for his robbery case in April.

Greetings, celebrity news fans. We added 25 new celebrity pictures to our gallery today. Below is a sampling, with many more after the jump:

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Yes. Star Magazine is claiming Britney Spears and Adnan Ghalib married during their quick jaunt to Rosarito, Mexico, back in January.

The two had a secret wedding, according to the celebrity gossip magazine, despite Adnan Ghalib being legally married to AzLynn Berry.

Star Magazine told the New York Daily News of the supposed quickie wedding that "Our source on this was not in Rosarito Beach at the ceremony, but is very familiar with the fact that [wedding] documents exist."

Star also claims Britney gave Adnan $250,000 to buy out AzLynn Berry.

[SIDE NOTE: Check out the other headline that claims Jamie Lynn Spears and Casey Aldridge have moved into their very own double-wide trailer!]

Britney Spears allegedly told her lawyers, who imposed a $1,000-a-day spending limit on the pop singer, that she needed the cash for a new Mercedes.

The Hollywood Gossip heard speculation that Britney Spears married Adnan Ghalib back on January 12, but this rumor was never confirmed.

Now Star Magazine has supposedly connected the sketchy, married dots. You tell us, celeb news fans ... do you believe this story?

Today Britney Spears' lawyers made it clear they want out.

But it's not that easy. After meeting in chambers with Commissioner Scott Gordon, the matter was continued to February 19.

The gist: Gordon wants to make sure when Trope and Trope says bye bye Brit, someone is already in place to handle the case.

The Commish wants Trope and Trope to come back with a plan and wants to know specifically who's coming in to rep Spears.

Sorrell Trope and an attorney for Kevin Federline emerged from the court session without comment. The matter will resume Tuesday.

Trope cited communication problems with Britney (seen here with mother Lynne Spears), as has Laura Wasser, his predecessor - and possible replacement.

After a shopping trip with mom and a rigorous dance workout at Millennium Dance Complex in North Hollywood yesterday, Britney Spears was visited by boyfriend Adnan Ghalib around 8:00 p.m. at her Summit Circle estate.

Adnan Ghalib must be on Jamie Spears' good side - Britney's pop can restrict who visits her, as her estate's conservator - as the celebrity news photographer came through the security gates outside her place without incident.

Despite receiving anything but positive reviews, Heidi Montag's joke debut single "Higher" reached No. 7 on the iTunes Top 10 pop charts.

"Looks like all the haters are also buying it!" the aspiring singer said.

But that doesn't mean the negative responses posted on Us Weekly and other celebrity gossip websites didn't hurt and humiliate Heidi Montag.

"I just started sobbing uncontrollably," she said. "I cried myself to sleep that first night after my video came out. I just couldn't understand why people I didn't even know felt the need to be so cruel and hurtful."

Hmm. It might have to do with her being a talentless media whore.

"I am just a 21-year-old from a small town trying to follow her dreams," says The Hills star, who ain't complaining about Us interviewing her daily.

A "sad" Heidi Montag stages a photo in which she pretends to be hurt by "fans'" reactions to her music video. Spencer Pratt acts as the supportive boyfriend.

All was not lost, though. Spencer Pratt, Heidi's boyfriend (and ex-fiance) as well as the director of the video, was there for support, fortunately.

"I just held her and told her it was going to be OK," he said. "It's just part of being an artist. If it were easy, everyone would be a pop star."

How did the music video concept for "Higher" come to be?

"We were at the beach and, literally, Spencer had his camera and a boom box in the trunk," Montag recalls of the amateur shoot in October. "We did it in one take, maybe two. It took 20 minutes to film and cost zero dollars."

Literally, people! As opposed to Spencer Pratt having the camera and boom box in the trunk of his car in, like, a figurative sense. Whatever.

"We had other ideas but we couldn't afford them," Montag said.

Hey, maybe next time. For now, you gots to calm down, girl. It sucks ass regardless, so producing it might as well be free. Think about it.

Follow the jump for some still photos from the music video in question. We really have no idea how people might make fun of Heidi over this ...

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ABC's upcoming star of The Bachelor, Matt Grant, isn't just looking for a bunch of flings with hot American babes. Although he'll certainly take it.

No, the British financier is looking for love, a wife, and the mother of his children. He has a very close relationship with his father and credits him as being part of the reason he is so serious about starting his own family. Soon.

"My dad had a stroke at the end of 2006 and that shook me. I want my kids to know him, because he was a great father and I want him to be a grandfather to them. I wouldn't mind having three or four kids," he told OK! Magazine.

Other than his accent, which he describes as "geeky" (try sexy!), Matt Grant doesn't see too much of a difference between British men and American men.

There are a few things that set them apart, though.

"We drink more tea and have crazy sports like cricket. I like to consider myself a British gentleman," Matt Grant said.

Twenty-five lucky aspiring trophy wives will get to meet this British gentleman when he follows the lame footsteps of Brad Womack on The Bachelor.

The show makes its season premiere on ABC Monday, March 17.

Stalking Britney Spears is a career for many peeps.

Seriously, the 26-year-old wreck is stalked by so many members celebrity news media that there are reports of gang members infiltrating the paparazzi.

To combat this, according to Access Hollywood, a new law may being proposed to protect the troubled singer and other celebrities from the paparazzi.

In light of the media storm that surrounds Spears, councilman Dennis Zine is trying to get a law passed to get these blood-sucking leeches to back off.

"It cost $25,000 to take an ambulance with Britney Spears to the hospital," Zine said. "Taxpayers paid for that. It is not going to be called the ‘Britney Spears Law.' I am not going to give her credit for that because it is not about Britney Spears. It's about the paparazzi violating everybody else's rights, freedoms, and privileges."

No word on whether Adnan Ghalib would be somehow exempt.

Possibly with no clue where she was, and definitely with no bra, Britney Spears did some shopping with her mother, Lynne Spears, yesterday.

Zine continued: "The paparazzi have developed a lawless society where the rules don't apply â€" on the wrong side of the street, jumping out of cars at the red lights, swarming the car, you don't do that. If we think back a few years, Princess Diana was driving down the road, paparazzi chasing. A crash occurred, Princess Diana died. I don't want to see that happen here in Los Angeles."

Even as people who work in the industry, we admit that it's gotten a little nuts. A mad dash to get the perfect Britney Spears nude photo or crotch shot or video of the singer talking in a British accent is not helping her get any better, guys!

Sometimes, the planets align and the worst people in the celebrity gossip world all congregate in one place. You never know when or where these moments will take place, but when they do, one cannot help but be in awe.

In this case, it's an orange-haired, slimy, acne riddled Mario Lavendeira, a.k.a. Perez Hilton, partying at Area over the weekend with quasi-namesake Paris Hilton, Simon Rex, and none other than Osama (Sam) Lutfi.

Here's a gross picture from the night's festivities. Prepare to recoil in horror at the pure evil (and poor hygiene) of these seedy characters ...

When Perez Hilton and Sam Lutfi get together, there's no telling what the evil duo might be planning. All we know is Alli Sims is sad she's not in this picture!

On a side note, also in attendance was Paris' brother, Barron Hilton, 18, who was arrested for DUI yesterday morning, and has since been freed on bail.