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Trying to stay shaded from a celebrity news flashbulb storm, Britney Spears got a hand from actor, waiter and reported boyfriend, Michael Marchand, on Tuesday after dining at the Los Angeles restaurant Mirabelle, where he supposedly works ...

Britney Spears: Possibly dating Michael Marchand (left).

Whether Britney has "totally fallen for" Michael Marchand as Life & Style reported on Wednesday remains to be seen. But they are definitely hanging out. Looks as though this guy has big time Isaac Cohen or maybe even J.R. Rotem potential!

Move over, Reg Jones. You are so 1996. This is 2007.

Britney Spears reportedly went out for a late night dinner on Tuesday night to Mirabella restaurant in Los Angeles... to visit her (gasp!) new boyfriend!

His name, according to Life & Style: Michael Marchand.

The magazine claims the two have been quietly dating for a few weeks and are slowly going public. We're not sure when the last time Britney Spears did anything quietly was, but maybe this Michael Marchand story is legit.

An eyewitness tells Life & Style:

"Michael Marchand came a little after midnight, and Britney Spears came in right after. They were being discreet. Forty-five minutes later, they left the restaurant together. He was charming. He made Britney laugh and looked at her with this secret smile. They left in separate cars."

Is Michael Marchand Britney Spears' boy toy of the week?

Apparently Britney "instantly fell" for Marchand at Mirabella when she ate there in early November. Say the source close to the waiter: "Their chemistry was immediate. He's very turned on by her."

Aren't we all, Michael Marchand. Aren't we all.

Since then, the two have had at least one date at Britney Spears' mansion. "They're always texting each other," says the insider.

Maybe it was this guy she was texting last week ... while driving!

When Life & Style asked him about their romance, he said, smiling, "I can't talk about that right now." Your 15 minutes have begun, sir.

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at The Hollywood Gossip. What would this traditional holiday be without family, friends, food, football and reflection upon some of the things we most appreciate in our lives.

For this celebrity news site, that means expressing thanks to some of the biggest turkeys we've come to know this past year. Below is a look at our staff's Top 10 (take a wild guess who was voted our Biggest Turkey of the Year) ...

10. Riley Giles. Not only does he give Lindsay Lohan a good stuffing, this clown is a meathead to the max. See mug shots. Yeah. Prime turkey material.

9. John Mayer. Makes the list in spite (or perhaps because) of the fact that he dates Minka Kelly. Guy's dome is also roughly the size of Plymouth Rock.

8. Michael Vick. Oh, wait, he's a dog.

7. Jan Adams. Worst. Doctor. Ever.

6. Brad Womack. Worst. Bachelor. Ever.

5. Dancing with the Stars judges. These losers really dropped the ball this season with some dubious decisions. Sabrina Bryan was robbed worse than Native Americans by the New World's European settlers. Close, anyway.

4. Spencer Pratt. The Hills villain sure can gobble up publicity.

3. Heather Mills. Imagine the kind of Thanksgiving feast you could throw after gold-digging your way to more than $50M of your ex-husband's fortune!

2. Blake Fielder-Civil. Raging alcoholism. Massive quantities of hard ass drugs. The surprise wedding. The bloody melee. A barroom brawl. Some witness tampering. This holiday, Amy Winehouse's husband should be thankful he's alive.

Fnally, The Hollywood Gossip's Biggest Turkey of the Year award goes to ...

1. Britney Spears. Talk about a foregone conclusion. Like the New England Patriots of the NFL, it was Britney Spears in her own league and everyone else playing for second. We raise a turkey leg (and some pork rinds) to you, Brit.

Britney Spears is "sort of our new Michael Jackson," says Drew Pinsky (a.k.a. Dr. Drew) in an interview with Us Weekly. The sex, mental health and drug addiction expert talks about the traumas in Britney's past â€" and how they may explain the precipitous mental decline happening before our eyes. Excerpts below ...

US: What in Britney Spears' childhood led her to where she is now?
Dr. Drew: It's how her father (Jamie Spears) treated her, it's the divorce (of her parents, and of herself and two husbands) and it's the genetics.

US: What about the fact that she became a star at such a young age?
Dr. Drew: Her mental health has almost nothing to do with her career. But fame hinders getting to her now. It is hard to get through those who are enabling her (Sam Lutfi, Alli Sims) and find the people willing to potentially sacrifice either a salary or access to her (Larry Rudolph) by bringing her into treatment. That is what is putting her in danger. That is what killed Anna Nicole Smith.

Britney is bonkers, but not beyond help, says Dr. Drew.

US: What about the effects from Britney Spears being sexually active from age 14, dressing provocatively, losing her virginity (to Reg Jones), and yet at the same time maintaining this image of purity and virginity?
Dr. Drew: I have seen many cases of young girls who have been prematurely sexualized in one fashion or another who try to recapture their virginity. They claim that the abuse doesn't count. I see that quite a bit.

US: What can be done for Britney Spears? Is she permanently damaged?
Dr. Drew: She is not an untreatable situation, but she needs to go away and drop out of sight and focus on sobriety for at least nine months.

US: Can she leave her kids?
Dr. Drew: [Sean Preston and Jayden James] can be brought into the process. But, for at least 30 days, she is going to be mostly away from them. Then, for six months, she can be in an intensive environment. It's going to take a long time.

Continue reading Dr. Drew's Us interview regarding Britney's mental state ...

Looking distraught - likely over the incarceration of husband Blake Fielder-Civil - singer Amy Winehouse took comfort in a special fan at her concert yesterday in Blackpool, England. The young fan showed up in a Winehouse-style beehive. Yay!

Amy Winehouse on the verge of tears ... with mini-AmyWinehouse.

You've got to admire a youngster for trying to walk in her role model's shoes. The only thing making this kid's Amy Winehouse impression subpar - a lack of tattoos, smeared makeup, blood and track marks from repeated heroin injections.

With so much entertainment news to report on - from Kyla Ebbert getting naked to DeAnna Pappas getting rejected - we've combined a pair of celebrity baby announcements into one post:

First, congratulations are in order for Scott Baio and his fiancee Renee Sloane. The pair received an early Christmas present when the baby that was expected in December popped out on November 2.

The healthy baby girl reportedly weighed in at five pounds, ten ounces.

Also, it appears as though a Sex and the City star has been having intercourse in real life: Chris Noth is expecting a child with girlfriend Tara Wilson.

While Noth is busy filming the Sex and the City movie, he did report that the upcoming baby will be a boy. Let's hope he finds his own Carrie Bradshaw one day!

You won't see Hayden Panettiere nude in the pages of the latest GQ... but you will see a cool interview and some amazingly hot photos of the Heroes actress.

Below, Hayden discusses the fall of Britney Spears, her relationship with Heroes co-star Milo Ventimiglia, girl-on-girl action rumors, and much, much more ...

GQ: When will you become the latest screwed-up girl in Hollywood?
Hayden Panettiere: Never, never. Cross our fingers.

GQ: We can't schedule it for your 21st birthday or anything?
Hayden Panettiere: You can't schedule rehab for me. And I don't think you can schedule any DUIs. I think I'm going to be one of those boring girls.

GQ: Will you at least go into a gas-station bathroom without shoes on?
Hayden Panettiere: No, that's disgusting. I've walked around other places maybe without my shoes on, but not bathrooms.

GQ: Tell us about your couple of years, since Heroes began.
Hayden Panettiere: This business turns life upside down. For some strange reason, I've become one of the targets of the paparazzi. Things get crazy.

GQ: It seems that we're pushing these young women toward meltdowns.
Hayden Panettiere: Absolutely. Britney Spears, for example. That girl was the epitome of beauty when I was younger. And we built her up and just ripped her down, put every aspect of her life under a microscope. Probably made 90 percent of the stuff up along the way. I can't even imagine if I had it like she does.

GQ: Well, things are much better for you. You're on a hit TV show. When are you going to ask NBC for the really big bucks?
Hayden Panettiere: Riiiight? I don't know! I wanna ask. We'll see.

GQ: Look, you're the biggest star on NBC. You need a million an episode.
Hayden Panettiere: I would feel bad if I got a million an episode.

GQ: It worked for the Friends, you know.
Hayden Panettiere: Dude, they got Porsches. We got a poker set!

GQ: What's the craziest rumor you've read about yourself?
Hayden Panettiere: Well, now that I'm single, it's like I'm dating every male I'm standing next to â€" and possibly every female.

GQ: You had to figure the lesbian rumor was coming.
Hayden Panettiere: Actually, that is pretty funny.

GQ: If someone were to put you together with a leading man, who would it be?
Hayden Panettiere: It could be anyone - Leo DiCaprio to Justin Timberlake - or any girl. You want to make me a lesbian? That's totally fine with me.

GQ: Okay. Well, who would be good?
Hayden Panettiere: Umm, let's see. We could do a love affair with Angelina Jolie. We could do... Oh gosh, there are so many beautiful girls out there. Charlize Theron. Oh, my God. Kate Beckinsale is gorgeous. Jessica Alba!

GQ: And you're not dating your Heroes costar Milo Ventimiglia, which is the celebrity gossip that's flying around most frequently about you?
Hayden Panettiere: No, I'm not. I love my castmates, and I adore Milo Ventimiglia. He's awesome, but we're easy targets. We're both young, and he's one of the only people on the show not married with children.

Follow the link for the GQ's complete Hayden interview ...

The Hollywood Gossip has been blowing up with people weighing in on Brad Womack and his shocking no-decision on the season finale of The Bachelor.

Last night, Brad faced the music in the form of both Jenni Croft and DeAnna Pappas, as well as all of America, to answer questions on his inactions.

Despite feeling "misled" by Brad Womack, Jenni Croft said she's disappointed in how Womack did the same to DeAnna Pappas, especially giving her a ray of hope just as he dropped the "but" and broker her heart. Nice one, Brad.

Jenni Croft says Brad should have given someone a chance, even in the form of dating. DeAnna Pappas still seems confused, angry... and into Womack.

Brad Womack then arrives to a mix of applause and boos. He says that he made his decision because he didn't want to make false promises to the girls.

Neither Jenni Croft (left) or DeAnna Pappas did it for Brad Womack.

We learn that Brad actually asked the network fly DeAnna Pappas' father out for the final ceremony, so Brad could ask for her hand in marriage - but his gut told him something was wrong when he went to buy the ring!

Jenni Croft rips Brad Womack for not at least giving either woman a chance and he says it "hurts deeply" to have Jenni lose respect for him.

Brad says to DeAnna that he thinks about her every single day, and it sounds like maybe he might be going to throw us for yet another loop by taking her back!

DeAnna hints that she would accept such a chance... and Womack replies that he's "very confident" in his decision, crushing her once again.

DeAnna Pappas can't hold back and cries to Womack, telling him that "[You're] the one person that I trusted most out of all of this, and you broke my heart."

Brad Womack's response: "I thought I was taking the high road." But was he?

Dr. Jan Adams, the Los Angeles plastic surgeon who operated on Kanye West's mother, Donda West, one day before she passed away, has kind of broken his silence and spoken to People about the events surrounding West's death.

The full interview with Jan Adams can be found in the latest issue of the magazine, which hits newsstands Friday. Only excerpts are available now.

Although he refused to speak on the actual cause of death "out of respect" for her, Adams denies that the surgery on Donda West was rushed.

"I find that offensive and sort of unfair," says Adams, who had a warrant out for his arrest before showing up in court for another unrelated case last week. "I'm thorough and I do my job well."

Several people might take issue with that statement. But as for his LONG, LONG list of legal problems and malpractice suits, Adams seems unworried.

"When people say 'plastic surgery' they think of me," he says. "These suits don't represent bad plastic surgery, but a bad decision in terms of choice of patient."

Does that when we think of bad driving, and think of Britney Spears, it doesn't mean bad driving, but rather a bad decision in terms of choice of driver?

In any case, Adams was also supposed to appear on Larry King Live this week but bailed at the last second at the urging of the West family, TMZ reports.

Jan Adams appeared after the show's first commercial break, at which point he politely told King he would not speak: "I came to talk about things in the press that aren't accurate about me. But I have a tremendous amount of love and respect for the West family and they've asked me not to go on."

Later, Alan Tenenbaum, an attorney for Dr. Adams, explained that he received a letter from attorneys representing the West family, asking him not to appear.

Jan Adams shows up on Larry King Live... then bolts. 

Producer Timbaland has gotten engaged to his girlfriend and publicist, Monique Idlett - and moreover, the pair just welcomed a baby girl!

Monique Idlett, 33, gave birth to their daughter just a couple of days ago, People magazine reports. The rapper and frequent collaborator of Justin Timberlake proposed to her at the couple's baby shower in October.

Timbaland, 36, and Idlett have been dating for two years, and "they're both really happy," says a source close to the mogul. "They've known each other for years."

Timbaland and Monique Idlett: New parents, and soon to be newlyweds!

This will be the first marriage for both Timbaland and Monique Idlett, who are reportedly planning to tie the knot within a year. Congratulations to both!