Pussycat Dolls

Kim Kardashian is set to partake in a new Pussycat Dolls reality show. As executive producer, she will help scour a group of contestants for future dolls.

American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe is also on board for the program, which will select and groom the new crop of PCD members. Sounds AMAZING.

The newbies are "10 times better than the original group," one source says. Not that this is a bold statement, really. No offense, Nicole Scherzinger.

Kim Kardashian will be evaluating talent despite possessing none.

Insiders say she has a good relationship with PCD founder Robin Antin, and her ass had a good time performing with the group in Vegas a few years ago.

Kim Kardashian is telling friends she's "super excited" to work with Nigel, who also runs So You Think You Can Dance, as "he's the best in the business."

That he is. Or was, before his decision to bring Kim on board.

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Tomorrow night, Nicole Scherzinger will learn her fate on Dancing with the Stars.

But while that title is still on the line, this much is for certain: the group that made Scherzinger famous has undergone a major face-lift.

Four-fifths of The Pussycat Dolls have officially been replaced. Melody Thornton, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta, and Kimberly Wyatt are out; and the following singers/dancers are in:

• Kherington Payne: Former So You Think You Can Dance star
• Rino Nakasone-Razalan: Former Harajuku Girl member
• Vanessa Curry: Former Laker Girl, Rumored Kobe Bryant mistress
• Jamie Lee Ruiz: Former Girlicious singer

Along with their famous lead singer, this quintet performed for the first time together on Friday night and then posted for the grainy photo above.

Led by creator Robin Antin, the new Dolls will enter the recording studio as soon as Scherzinger completes her run on DWTS. They'll be forced to come up with new ways to essentially say the same thing in all their songs: f-ck me. F-ck me hard!

Considering they've hated their lead singer for months, it's surprising it took so long for The Pussycat Dolls to call it quits.

But the all-girl group (who really hate it when you loosen up their buttons and then just front) has finally broken up, as Kimberly Wyatt told Great Britain's The Daily Mirror.

“The girls and I have just finished our huge world tour and are taking a break from the band and doing our own thing. We’re all concentrating on our own projects and deciding what the future will hold."

For Wyatt, that future will likely include more bashing of Nicole Scherzinger. We can't wait!

Will any of The Pussycat Dolls find success on their own?

They both want you to loosen up their buttons, readers. Will you front?

While Nicole Scherzinger and Melody Thornton are each members of the Pussycat Dolls, they haven't always gotten along so well.

Just last week, Thornton said it was a "huge misconception" that her and the other singers were content to just sit around as Scherzinger worked on a solo album. Meow, indeed!

Now, let's settle this catfight once and for all. Every song the Dolls release is based around sex, so there's only one question that will dictate which artist is truly the group's star:

With which would you prefer to have sexual intercourse?

Nicole Scherzinger might support the troops that put their lives on the line every single day, but her fellow Dolls of Pussy don't support this singer's solo career.

When asked by Great Britain's The Sun about her fellow Pussycat Doll's professional aspirations, singer Melody Thornton didn't hold back:

“Nicole’s always had extra things going on as opposed to the rest of us, but we have aspirations as well," she said. "It’s definitely a huge misconception that we are just chilling and happy to just be members of the group."

It's time to choose a side in thie burgeoning cat fight, readers: Team Nicole or Team Melody?

The sort of glamourous Pussycat Dolls look absolutely slightly better than average in all white on the cover of Blender magazine's October 2008 issue.

The Hollywood Gossip pop quiz: Name the other four Pussycat Dolls besides Nicole Scherzinger. No, really. You gotta us. We have absolutely no idea.

Nicole Scherzinger looks fairly sexy on this cover. The other four members of PCD will remain nameless. We're sure they're nice people - we just have no clue who they are.

Her next album may not be hitting stores any time soon, but Britney Spears is dipping her toes back into the music scene.

Or at least filming a cameo for the new Pussycat Dolls video.

"It's a small part," says a source about the pop star's visit to the L.A. set of the group's video shoot for their new single, "When I Grow Up."

Possibly saving her trademark moves for her own album (or because she's lost them for good) Spears is not expected to dance or perform in the video.

Here's a clip of the video being filmed this week:

The Pussycat Dolls create yet another groundbreaking music video.

As for the recovering Britney Spears, she's possibly dating producer Jason Trawick but definitely treading lightly as she tries to regain a career.

While her recent TV meetings have been strictly exploratory, How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris said the cast of that show would be happy to have her back for a third time saying, "The door is open for her."

The Hills' Audrina Patridge got into (sexxxy!) costume to introduce the famous Pussycat Dolls at PURE Nightclub in Las Vegas on Friday.

"This is the first time I have seen the Pussycat Dolls," Audrina Patridge told the crowd, which was certainly envisioning The Hills star naked after the photo scandal earlier this month. "They are absolutely amazing."

The non-nude Audrina won raves from Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin.

"She is so hot," Antin said. "She walked in the room and I said 'Wow, now that's a Pussycat Doll.' Audrina Patridge is the ultimate Pussycat Doll. She will be back so you will get another look at that beautiful face. The face of an angel."

Okay then.

Audrina Patridge introduces the Pussycat Dolls. Rowwwwrr!!!!

When Patridge signed on to introduce the Pussycat Dolls this month - before the nude photos of her surfaced - she was rumored to have joined the group.

"I don't know where that came from!" the good friend of Lauren Conrad told Us Weekly. "I'm going to introduce them one night and that's it!"

Audrina, Lauren and the rest of The Hills gang return tonight at 10!

Just one week after her nude pics were "leaked" on the Internet, Audrina Patridge is preparing to "take center stage" with the risque Pussycat Dolls.

This gig with PCD was booked well in advance, of course, but The Hills star - who mysteriously did not appear on the season premiere Monday (hmm) is finding that her notoriety has risen meteorically since the naked photo scandal hit.

According to sources, reps for Audrina Patridge have been working overtime to pimp her out hardcore to cash in on her newfound bad girl fame...

Just a few months ago, Audrina Patridge couldn't get into Hyde without Lauren Conrad - now she's getting paid to host a night at PURE and drink for free? Nice!

But seriously now. Whether or not it was an accident that we all got to see Audrina nude last week, it becomes abundantly clear each time that this kind of "exposure" generates some serious buzz. Just call it the Kim Kardashian playbook!

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.