Long before Adnan Ghalib was shopping nude Britney Spears pics, there was another sketchy terrorist dude in her day-to-day life: Mr. Sam Lutfi.

For months leading up to Britney's recent meltdown, she and Lutfi were inseparable. Well, it turns out Spears' parents, Lynne and Jamie, believe Sam was a prime reason Brit has refused to seek mental help all along.

They were so mad at Sam Lutfi they threw him out of the hospital last week when he arrived to visit Britney, who had been taken there via ambulance.

Britney Spears' parents aren't huge fans of Sam Lutfi. Stunning.

Britney's parents - especially Jamie Spears - have been trying for months to get her committed into a mental hospital for a bipolar disorder.

Britney's father in particular has believed since last summer that Britney was suffering from a mental disease - not substance abuse as many claim.

Jamie believed Sam Lutfi was impeding Brit's ability to get help. He praised her former manager, Larry Rudolph, for trying to get her help earlier in the year. Britney fired Rudolph, of course, before he could succeed.

Jamie Spears has been looking for a way to push her into a facility but she has refused. TMZ reports that Britney continues to refuse to undergo a battery of tests that would officially diagnose her with bipolar disorder.

Seriously, celebrity gossip fans. Up top!

In one of the best news stories of the year thus far, John Mayer and Minka Kelly have quietly called it quits, according to People magazine.

The large-headed, lame-ass musician, 30, and the 27-year-old Friday Night Lights star split over a month ago, but are "still friends."

They were last seen together in December, when Minka Kelly showed support for Mayer at his December concert in L.A. and accompanied him to the after-party at Parc. The two were also spotted having breakfast in L.A.

Since she broke up with John Mayer, we can run a pic of just Minka Kelly.

According to a pal of Kelly's, "Minka told a couple friends that she and John Mayer had broken up but she really didn't want to tell anyone."

The couple became involved in October, dining together several times in Austin, Texas, and again later that month in California. They also met up with Chris Ivery and Ellen Pompeo at a Knicks game in New York in November.

The split, however, may not last for long. When Mayer was boning Jessica Simpson, they broke up and reunited numerous times. You never know.

Brace yourself, reality TV fans.

Hulk Hogan was recently asked about his scary daughter, Brooke Hogan. Will she continue her singing career? Here is the Hulkster's reply:

She's singing. She auditioned for "Dancing With the Stars" yesterday. I think she may have her own extension of "Hogan Knows Best."

Please tell us those shows will at least bar Hogan from wearing chaps.

Looks like the Kardashian sisters have more in common that just first names that start with the letter "K."

As you can see here, the dress Kim Kardashian and Carrie Underwood both fancy was also recently worn by Khloe Kardashian.

Who do you think looks better in it, Kim or Khloe?

Vacationing at the One & Only Palmilla resort in Los Cabos, Mexico, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag definitely didn't stage any pictures. Never.

These entirely candid, natural photos show The Hills couple everyone loves to hate hangin' out, relaxing and having so much fun it's like, crazy.

Let's take a little photo tour of Spencer and Heidi's Cabo vacation, shall we?

OMG! Froliciking in the waves is, like, so much fun! Maybe we'll even go surfing later! Too bad all we're catching back in the states are waves of nausea.

PDA: What's a trip to Cabo without showing affection for your lover... to the entire celebrity gossip world. Heidi and Spencer are so in love... with publicity.

Reading up: While Spencer Pratt checks out Fortune to pick up some new schemes, Heidi Montag makes sure those fake boobs are kept sunburn-free.

Working out: We're not sure what Heidi weighs, since she's mostly made of plastic, but Spencer Pratt finds out during an impromptu push-up session.

Yawn: Playing on the beach and staging pics all day is hard work! Time to relax, recover and get ready for the bonus episodes of The Hills this spring!

Finalpixx, the photo agency that employs Adnan Ghalib, Britney Spears' bizarre paparazzi beau, denies it shopping around any Britney Spears nude pictures.

But TMZ reports that they sure as hell are. Seriously, there are some pants on fire here! Appropriate, since few people hate pants more than Britney Spears.

Apparently the semi-nude Britney Spars photos have been shopped around to various weekly celebrity gossip publications. One source says a major U.S. weekly was pitched the photos this week, but elected to pass.

Another magazine source tells TMZ that Adnan Ghalib's pics were pitched to them for five figures, but they passed since "the photos weren't any good."

Who can forget this 2006 shot of Britney Spears' crotch. Photos of Britney Spears naked in full? Those we've yet to see. Adnan Ghalib may change that.

Earlier this week, we read reports that Adnan Ghalib was shopping photos of Britney Spears, naked or close to it. But we also heard his pics suck.

We are not sure whether these pics include the strange shots of Adnan and Britney - with no pants, as usual - sucking on lollipops in Santa Barbara.

Now X17 is reporting that the only takers are an Australian magazine - and that they've paid a paltry $57,000. So weak! Heck, our interns make that much.

NOTE: No they don't.

Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul are ready for another season of American Idol. They're also prepared for another few months of trading verbal barbs.

Before mocking his fellow judge, however, Cowell first opened up to TV Guide about the crop of talent last season, saying it "just wasn't good enough."

It's hard to argue with that assessment when the debut albums from finalists Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis fared so poorly.

Abdul even agreed with her supposed rival for a change, adding: "I don't remember hardly anyone [from] last year."

From there, though, Paula morphed back into her oddball self, describing the dynamic on the show, as, well, this:

"I'm the nurturing mom who breast-feeds these kids; Simon's the disapproving dad. They come off the nipple and never say, 'Thank you.' They go, 'Daddy, please pat me on the back.'"

But Cowell summed up his partner well - and got us excited for this season of American Idol - by simply saying:

"Paula's possibly more out of touch than she's ever been in her life."

Miley Cyrus is involved in a hairy situation below.

The Hanna Montanah star recently ditched her usual dark locks for a lighter hue of red. Which look do you prefer?

As the whole world watched, Britney Spears locked herself in her home with her youngest child, Jayden James, leaving even the most ardent fan doubting her sanity and ability to raise JJ and his older brother, Sean Preston.

But only a few weeks earlier, it was a very different Britney that sat for an interview and photos with her adorable little mistakes as photographer Dani Brubaker snapped pics for the upcoming issue of celebrity gossip magazine, OK!

OK! loves the Spears family almost as much as Us Weekly.

"She was very loving," photographer Brubaker said. "She told me she loved her children and that they are her life."

Far from being the neglectful parent some portray her as, the photographer tells OK! that Britney was "very attentive" to the needs of her sons.

NOTE: We really wonder how much Lynne Spears got paid for this story.

As for the 26-year-old singer's reaction to the cute photos of her with her sons, Brubaker reveals a reaction of a loving, possibly crazy mom.

"I'm told that when she saw the photographs, she literally cried for over an hour and stared at them all night long," she said. Literally.

NOTE: That could've just been the alcohol and pills, of course.

Regardless, the troubled singer is "inconsolable" right now as the chance of her winning the custody battle for her children looks bleak.

"Those boys are her everything, and she's said repeatedly that life isn't worth living if she can't have her babies with her," says a friend.

The friend adds that Britney Spears would say goodbye to the music business (wait, that didn't happen in 2003?) just to look after her boys.

"The only reason she's doing this is because she wants them to look up to her onstage and be like, ‘That's my mama,' and be proud of her."

"She'd put her life before them and would die for Jayden James and Preston. They're her whole world. "Britney has always said, ‘I would die for my boys if that's what it took to prove I loved them. I'd do anything for them.'"

You heard her, fans. Britney would do anything.

Even humiliating herself by parading around in no underwear, running red lights with them in the back seat, dumping them on nannies to go party, and holding them hostage during a three-hour standoff at her mansion. Anything.

She may not be as reviled as Kelly Tilghman, but Jessica Simpson isn't what you'd call popular among sports enthusiasts these days.

At least not among Cowboys fans.

She's been touted as the rival New York Giants' secret weapon this coming Sunday, when her boyfriend Tony Romo leads his Dallas team into battle.

The "singer" faced criticism from Dallas fans after she rooted on Romo at Texas Stadium December 16 when the Cowboys lost to Philadelphia.

Simpson wore a pink jersey. Romo had his worst game ever.

Then, this past week, the pair enjoyed romantic vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, sparking renewed concern that Dallas' season may be doomed.

Jessica Simpson may be hot, and from Texas, but Dallas Cowboys fans don't care - they just want Tony Romo focusing on the damn football game Sunday.

Well, perhaps because of the scrutiny Tony Romo has received from all this, it now looks like she's gonna sit Sunday's Cowboys-Giants game out.

Jessica's PR rep said: "She is not attending. She is working on a new album. She'll be watching [on TV] and cheering him on."