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We love Hayden Panettiere, and a big part of our infatuation is due to that hot, sexy ... brain of hers! She knows it, too. Here our girl Hayden is sporting a shirt proclaiming "This Girl's a Genius" as she exits the hot Koi restaurant in L.A. with mother and manager Lesley Panettiere. Anything but coy, if you ask us!

Hayden Panettiere: Beauty and brains! Sign us up!

She might be a girl genius who's on the market, as well. If you believe her co-star Kristen Bell, at least - Bell burst the Halo (Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglina) bubble at The Alliance for Children's Rights benefit in Beverly Hills.

"[Hayden and Milo Ventimiglia] are great friends. They're not dating," she said.

Well, that officially settles that. Okay, not really. This could be just a conspiracy... one that is being very well covered up. Go Halo!

After taking separate paths for years, could Stephen Colletti be rekindling his Laguna Beach high school romance with Lauren Conrad?

The alleged relationship between Conrad and Colletti surfaced when the two were spotted at Opera in L.A. for a Hornitos Tequila launch last month, as well as on several other occasions. This could be one juicy hookup!

Both refused to speak to the celebrity news media regarding their status, which prompted some spectators to think that Lauren, the star of The Hills, and her former Laguna Beach beau are, in fact, an item after all this time.

"He and Lauren Conrad definitely looked like an item," a source told Star.  "They hung out together the entire time and at one point, Stephen grabbed Lauren and took her out to the dance floor, where they danced to the song 'One More Time.' They were laughing and flirting. They looked happy and cute together."

  Lauren Conrad got together with Stephen Colletti on Laguna Beach, where they soon became parts of a love triangle that also involved Kristin Cavallari.

Eventually, Conrad focused her attention on Jason Wahler. When that failed, LC moved on to Brody Jenner, who previously dated Kristin Cavallari. Obviously.

As for Stephen Colletti, he was recently in a relationship with Hayden Panettiere, the young star of Heroes. The two began dating in July 2006, but broke up this past summer, right after Hayden turned 18. Sucks for Stephen.

Despite their breakup, Colletti and Panettiere, who has been linked to her Heroes co-star, Milo Ventimiglia, since the break-up, remain "very close friends" and "talk to each other frequently." We don't believe that for a second.

Everyone knows you can see Lauren Conrad on the third season of The Hills every Monday, but Stephen Colletti can also be seen on TV - as Chase Adams on One Tree Hill, which returns for a fifth season in January 2008.

Looks like Britney Spears has something to get off her chest. And no, we're not talking about a pesky bra. Girl loves being topless! And wearing no underwear!

Really, just ask Tuesday Knight! But in this case, we mean it in a different way - her sweatshirt in the pic below proclaims: "F*%k Off Lover Boy." Class.

Britney Spears sends a thinly-veiled message to someone.

Who is the object of Brit's bitterness? Could it be ex husbands Kevin Federline and Jason Alexander? Or perhaps Daimon Shippen? Isaac Cohen? JR Rotem?

Regardless, the 25-year-old "singer" showed off the outfit while driving in Malibu, Calif., on October 16. The message was on the back of the jacket, which Spears was wearing backwards. No word on whether she turned it around on purpose to make a statement, or was simply confused while dressing.

The sweatshirt isn't the only incidence of Spears swearing of late. Last week, she was heard dropping the f-bomb and other choice comments at Neiman Marcus.

The train wreck then summoned her assistant, Bret, to bring her dog, London. She was told, though, that the Yorkie was at her house in Malibu - 27 miles away.

"F*%k that," Britney Spears replied. "That will take us an hour to drive there. Can't we have the dog messengered over?"

Classic Britney. Spears then went on to badmouth the judge presiding over her ongoing custody battle / trial, calling him "catty" and an "old fart" who "gets off" on "telling people what to do" and shows Britney "no respect."

Train wreck rocker Pete Doherty and his longtime girlfriend / fiancee, the often naked Kate Moss, have ended their relationship and moved on. Fast.

Pete Doherty is said to be dating - even engaged to - hippie chick model Irina Lazareanu. He is also probably snorting mounds of coke right now.

Irina Lazareanu was once - scandalously - Kate Moss' close friend, and was chosen by the anorexic supermodel to model her UglyWear TopShop brand.

Kate Moss has also moved on, though, finding new love with James Hince, also known as Jamie Hince, the disheveled singer of "The Kills."

PeteMoss movin' on: Jamie Hince and Irina Lazareau fill a void.

Speaking of things that kill, how about James Hince's face! Wow, quite the looker you've got there, Kate. Then again, look at Pete Doherty. What a nut.

In a world dominated by certain celebrities getting unnecessary plastic surgery and wearing no pants to clubs, Kate Walsh is a breath of fresh air.

The former member of the Grey's Anatomy cast, who now stars on Private Practice, turned 40 on Saturday and says she had no angst about the milestone.

"Probably, honestly, I would have cared more if I were still single," the star tells Marie Claire.

"But I've also been working through all the big things that you grapple with as a female. I feel I'm in such a place of peace in my life that 40 feels like a great marker of a great year."

Kate Walsh says she had let the idea of marriage go - until she met Alex Young, 36, a co-president of film production at 20th Century Fox.

"I met him, and I knew unequivocally," she says. "Is that strange? I used to want to hit people who said, 'You know when you know' about someone. It made me want to throw up. But I'm the annoying one now."

Kate Walsh and Alex Young moved in together just a month later, got engaged in May, and made it official when they got married Labor Day weekend.

BIRTHDAY GIRL: Kate Walsh was all smiles Saturday, her big 4-0.

The beautiful Private Practice star describes her new husband as "super intelligent, super smart, very handsome" and "a true gentleman."

"It's so easy to be cynical, but it's not how he lives," she says. "I've always known I've needed someone who lived from his heart."

It was only last year when the sweet, sexy, sassy Carrie Underwood admitted to being "horrible around guys." That was then, this is now, people.

The 24-year-old country crooner and former American Idol champion seems to be hitting her romantic stride, linking up with Gossip Girl hunk Chace Crawford.

"He's really cute," Carrie Underwood recently said of Chace Crawford, a 22-year-old Texas native. "I've met him and he seems like a really nice guy. He's got cool hair, he's a nice height and he just has beautiful blue eyes." Wow, she's met him!?

The pair stopped by Manhattan's Marquee nightclub last Friday, then popped into Gramercy Park Hotel's hip Rose Bar on Saturday night. Hot stuff!

"At one point, they were holding hands, off to the side of the table, like they didn't want people to see," says an observer.

Earlier this year, the American Idol queen and Academy of Country Music and Country Music Television Video Award winner was linked to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo. That relationship appears to be over.

You can catch Chace Crawford on Gossip Girl tonight on The CW.

Here's a video from a few weeks ago of reality TV b!tch and aspiring singer Heidi Montag singing "Higher." After having her crappy website hacked, we're sure Heidi appreciates us turning our attention back to her music.

Check out Heidi Montag singing live in September ...

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We guess Heidi Montag's voice isn't terribly bad... but it certainly isn't great. Note that as of this posting, the clip has been viewed 38,589 times on YouTube and has a stellar 1-star rating, having been "favored" by a whopping 19 visitors.

This girl wants to be famous so badly, it's painful to watch. It's fitting, though, that two of Hollywood gossip world's most loathsome individuals - her fiance, Spencer Pratt, her celebrity blog queen Perez Hilton - can be seen cheering her on.

Like the rest of us, a longtime friend of Britney Spears is exasperated that the singer keeps exposing herself in public.

"The underwear thing is ridiculous â€" and I've told her," Tuesday Knight, a jewelry designer who has been a friend of Britney's since 2003, tells the latest issue of In Touch Weekly.

"I've said, ‘You cannot walk into a store wearing just a shirt with your underwear off.' I've told her no one will take her seriously if she does."

Tuesday Knight believes Britney's insecurity after her divorce from Kevin Federline led to her exposing her providing us upskirt pics quite often.

"I love Britney â€" adore her â€" but she brings a lot of it on herself," says Tuesday, 38. "I've heard [fellow crotch shot queens] Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan talk about how they shock Hollywood just for fun."

"Britney has always been a good mother," she says. "I want people to know that she's the better parent, not Kevin!" Tuesday Knight adds, "Britney asked me, ‘Doesn't anybody get to see this part of me?' The answer is, no, they don't. People just read about her wearing no underwear."

Tuesday Knight blames Kevin Federline for Britney's devolution.

"I knew Britney when she and Kevin first met," Tuesday says. "She remade her entire life so it was all about him. She didn't even want to sign a prenup. Since then, I've watched her spiral downward."

Now, Britney Spears' ongoing problem of wearing no pants and flashing her baby factory could get her in even more trouble with the law.

"The rules on indecent exposure are the same for everybody," says attorney Myles Alderman Jr. of New York's Alderman & Alderman law firm, which does not represent Britney. "If you can see her exposing herself at eye level, then that would be sufficient evidence and could create a legal issue."

Before that happens, Tuesday Knight hopes that her friend will realize that she doesn't have to humiliate herself to get attention.

"Britney doesn't need to do it and she knows it's stupid," says Tuesday. "But she says that she just doesn't like to wear underwear."

Just in case you were wondering at home: Spencer Pratt wants to be disgustingly rich (possibly even rich enough to buy a real engagement ring) ... but is also content entertaining viewers as reality TV's most hated villain.

"The bottom line is I'm making people react and ultimately not think about that we are in a war in Iraq and are trying to pick leaders," he says in the November issue of Radar magazine. "The Hills is a good breath of fresh air for people. I do not take it a little bit seriously. I'm an entertainer."

What Spencer Pratt does take seriously is his future, however.

"I'm trying to be a billionaire by age 30. Once you find an open market, that's where you can make billions to trillions of dollars," says the vile one.

Acne-riddled reality TV pests don't typically become trillionaires, at least to our knowledge, but you go ahead and believe that, Spencer.

The 24-year-old, best known as the despised fiance of The Hills co-star, Heidi Montag, also admits to political aspirations and tells Radar that while his antics are for show, his love for Montag is the real deal.

"She is an angel, I'm honored to be with her. People don't even know!" Spencer Pratt says of the 20-year-old "singer."

"I'm the new villain, and that's hilarious! It's so cool to be alive ... I would be on reality TV until I am 100. It's the coolest thing."

The talentless hack did not comment on Heidi's website getting hacked. But he did add: "It's cooler to have people come up and be like, 'Spencer Pratt' and know my name, than to be Orlando Bloom, who's famous for being some pirate."

And for a possible hit-and-run in which he allegedly walked away from the scene of a car crash. But that's neither here nor there.

Suri Cruise is pumped up.

Look at her arms raised triumphantly on the latest cover of Us Weekly. What does she have to be happy about? The fact that her parents actually keep her shielded from the press a lot of the time (unlike, say, Jayden James)?

Well, there's no question that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' adorable little daughter leads a charmed existence. But just how big a role does TomKat's controversial religion play in the life of Suri Cruise on a daily basis?

Suri Cruise - who was fed a mixture of barley water, milk and corn syrup instead of formula and breast milk - is too young for classes at the Scientology Centre, but the 18-month-old is constantly surrounded by believers, including her nannies.

Additionally, Katie Holmes, 29, and Tom Cruise, 45, reportedly have a hard time saying no to little Suri Cruise. But it's not simply because they're pushovers.

"It's all about being positive and supportive," says a friend. Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard advises parents to "try to be a child's friend." As for discipline, one former member tells Us that Scientologists do not scold their children, but rather explain that bad behavior is the "wrong action."

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, says their pal, are lenient and do not like to give Suri Cruise too many rules: "Suri pretty much does whatever she wants, whenever she wants. If she fusses before bed, they let her stay up later. If they want her to go swimming and she cries, they take her out. If she whines about food, they'll ask what else she wants to eat. They always want to please her."

In other words, they're pretty standard parents. Who would have guessed.